Definition: Subsistence worker

Category: ILO terminology

Subsistence workers are workers who hold a "self-employment" job and in this capacity produce goods or services which are predominantly consumed by their own household and constitute an important basis for its livelihood. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/icse_1993_en.pdf
Source:
International Labour Organisation (ILO), Resolution concerning the International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE), adopted by the Fifteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, January 1993
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