The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk

This paper highlights the links between enterprises in poor countries, risk, and employment outcomes. Concentrating on how formality and flexibility can be combined to ensure that the effects of risk are mitigated for firms and households, the author details the concepts of formality and its relatio...

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Main Author:	Teal, Francis
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	non-farm employment enterprise productivity enterprise size farm self-employment urban wage employment formality informality trade policy labor market labor policy industrial policy
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16367

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spelling	okr-10986-163672021-04-23T14:03:28Z The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk Teal, Francis non-farm employment enterprise productivity enterprise size farm self-employment urban wage employment formality informality trade policy labor market labor policy industrial policy This paper highlights the links between enterprises in poor countries, risk, and employment outcomes. Concentrating on how formality and flexibility can be combined to ensure that the effects of risk are mitigated for firms and households, the author details the concepts of formality and its relation to enterprise and labor markets. Flexibility includes a range of skills firms can employ, the number of produce lines they can supply and access to technology that enables them to produce goods of higher quality. The paper further explores the links between formality and flexibility, analyzes enterprises according to locality and size, links enterprises and incomes to discover how risks can be managed, and broadly applies formality and flexibility themes to assess their relation to risk managing policies. 2013-12-05T22:42:38Z 2013-12-05T22:42:38Z 2013-04 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16367 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	This paper highlights the links between enterprises in poor countries, risk, and employment outcomes. Concentrating on how formality and flexibility can be combined to ensure that the effects of risk are mitigated for firms and households, the author details the concepts of formality and its relation to enterprise and labor markets. Flexibility includes a range of skills firms can employ, the number of produce lines they can supply and access to technology that enables them to produce goods of higher quality. The paper further explores the links between formality and flexibility, analyzes enterprises according to locality and size, links enterprises and incomes to discover how risks can be managed, and broadly applies formality and flexibility themes to assess their relation to risk managing policies.
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title	The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk
title_short	The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk
title_full	The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk
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title_full_unstemmed	The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk
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