A champion of Self-Employment, Greece

Self-Employment The most recent data released by the OECD shows that more than half Colombia's workforce is self-employed with labor informality, income inequality and non-regular contracts widespread across the country. In Europe, countries in the south such as Greece (34.1 percent) tend to have the highest self-employment rates while in the north, especially across Scandinavia, the proportion of workers being their own bosses is far lower. Elsewhere, the self-employment rate stands at 10.6 percent in Japan and just 6.4 percent in the United States. Read more.