In a quarter of the countries, self-employed workers earn significantly more than their counterparts on permanent work contracts (potentially driven by self-employed in the professional services sectors) and in the remaining quarter of the countries they earn less. The vertical axis shows the impact of the same change on the log earnings of the 90th quantile. A data point below (above) the 45 degree line indicates that the change in the composition of the workforce as regards the type of employment is associated with a fell (rise) in eamings inequality.