The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk

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The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk

dc.contributor.author	Teal, Francis
dc.date.accessioned	2013-12-05T22:42:38Z
dc.date.available	2013-12-05T22:42:38Z
dc.date.issued	2013-04
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/16367
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/16367
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	non-farm employment
dc.subject	enterprise productivity
dc.subject	enterprise size
dc.subject	farm self-employment
dc.subject	urban wage employment
dc.subject	formality
dc.subject	informality
dc.subject	trade policy
dc.subject	labor market
dc.subject	labor policy
dc.subject	industrial policy
dc.title	The Enterprise Sector : Providing Employment and Sharing Risk	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Jobs
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Public-Private Partnerships
okr.date.disclosure	2013-12-05
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T12:46:22.792435Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.globalpractice	Trade and Competitiveness
okr.language.supported	en
okr.region.geographical	Sub-Saharan Africa
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Enterprise Development & Reform
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Microenterprises
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Small and Medium Size Enterprises
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies