Variable: Employers, total (% of total employment) (modeled ILO)
QoG Code: (wdi_emp)
Description:
Employers refers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners, hold the type of jobs defined as a 'self-employment jobs' i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced, and, in this capacity, have engaged, on a continuous basis, one or more persons to work for them as employee(s). Modeled ILO estimate.
Type of variable: Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-01-23
Last updated by source: 2023-01-22
Categories:
Labour Market
Find this variable in:
Basic Cross-section - 2024
Basic Time-series - 2024
OECD Cross-section - 2024
OECD Time-series - 2024
Standard Cross-section - 2024
Standard Time-series - 2024
Original Dataset
Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset
No. Countries
Basic cross-section:
178
Basic time-series:
180
Standard cross-section:
178
Standard time-series:
180
OECD cross-section:
38
OECD time-series:
38
Dataset
Available for years:
Standard time-series:
1991-2021
Basic time-series:
1991-2021
OECD time-series:
1991-2021
This variable has information for these countries:
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Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus (1975-)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini (former Swaziland)
Ethiopia (-1992)
Ethiopia (1993-)
Fiji
Finland
France (1963-)
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia (1966-)
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan (1971-)
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Sudan (-2011)
Sudan (2012-)
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
This variable has information from the year 1991 to the year 2021