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How Vulnerable are the Self-Employed? Evidence from Ugandan Small-Scale Entrepreneurs
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Abstract Due to small firm sizes and inter-linkages between household and business finances, small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries are inherently vulnerable to temporary and permanent income shortfalls, and hence household poverty. While the International Labour Organisation (ILO) generally defin... mehr
Due to small firm sizes and inter-linkages between household and business finances, small-scale entrepreneurs in developing countries are inherently vulnerable to temporary and permanent income shortfalls, and hence household poverty. While the International Labour Organisation (ILO) generally defines self-employment without employees as vulnerable employment, little empirical research has been done on the extent to which the self-employed are indeed vulnerable. This paper makes two main contributions: first, it operationalises the concept of vulnerability in the context of self-employment in developing countries by defining vulnerability as the risk of having business income below a living wage threshold. Secondly, it investigates the extent and correlates of vulnerability. Using a six-year balanced entrepreneur panel dataset from Kampala, Uganda, it is shown that the self-employed are heterogeneous with respect to vulnerability and observed earnings: 58-74% of the samples are classified as vulnerable in a given year and mostly earn incomes below the living wage threshold. Vulnerable entrepreneurs are shown to be significantly different from non-vulnerable entrepreneurs in several dimensions, including those that do not directly predict income.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Afrika; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Asien; Lateinamerika; Entwicklungsland; Nordafrika; Nahost; wirtschaftliche Lage; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Wirtschaftspolitik; arabische Länder; Kleinbetrieb; Selbständigkeit; Unternehmertum; Vulnerabilität; Uganda; Armut
Klassifikation
Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 1391-1408
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Development Studies, 59 (2023) 9
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2217996
ISSN
1743-9140
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)