Definition: Core own-account worker

Category: ILO terminology

Core own-account workers are those "own-account workers" who work predominantly for the market independently of specific conditions imposed by the suppliers of credit, raw materials, etc., or of one main customer, and who rent or own their own equipment and other means of production. 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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