UNECE Statistical Division Employers and Own-account Workers in the UNECE Database Andres Vikat Workshop on Developing Entrepreneurship Statistics by Gender in the Republic of Moldova Chiinău, Republic of Moldova, 30 June – 1 July 2015

Slide 2 Status in Employment  Employee  Employer  Own-account worker  Member of a producers’ cooperative  Family worker unece.org/data

Slide 3 Status in employment  Distinction between 'paid employment' and 'self- employment' jobs  Workers holding paid-employment jobs have explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts which give them a basic remuneration which is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work  Self-employment jobs are jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced

Slide 4 International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93)  Employer … holds a self-employment job has engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for her/him in the business as employees  Own-account worker … holds a self-employment job has not engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for her/him in the business as employees

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Slide 23 Concluding Remarks In the UNECE region, the Republic of Moldova has among the smallest numbers of employers … and among the largest shares of women among employers numbers of own-account workers shares of women among own-account workers.  More information is needed about the situation of the enterprises of the employers and the kind of work done by the own-account workers.