%0 Journal Article %T Bearing the economic risk as a feature of a self-employed person %A Maniewska, Eliza %J Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy %V Volume 29 (2022) %R 10.4467/25444654SPP.22.022.16567 %N Volume 29 Issue 3 %P 269-278 %K self-employment, economic risk, sham self-employment, the concept of labor protection model, protection of work contractors %@ 1429-9585 %D 2022 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/szppips/article/ponoszenie-ryzyka-gospodarczego-jako-cecha-osoby-pracujacej-na-wlasny-rachunek %X The author puts forward and justifies the thesis that one of the essential features of self-employment is bearing the economic risk. She indicates the implication of this thesis in the context of preventing the so-called sham self-employment, and in the context of the search for a legal model of self-employment protection, understood as covering this group of contractors, with the necessary modifications, by some protective institutions specific to employees within the meaning of Art. 2 of the Labor Code. ASJC: 3308, JEL: K31