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IPS320 Michael Frosch

Figure 2
Classification modules depending on self-identified (SI)
employment status

SI- Self-employed SI- Employees SI-CFW

-Having employees or -Forms of remuneration -Forms of
not -Responsibility for remuneration
-Incorporated contribution to social -Making most
enterprise insurance or deduction important
-Operational and/or
economic dependency of income tax or actual decisions
contribution

Sub-classification module defined as
Employees

Employees
-Guaranteed minimum amount of hours
-Time-limited employment arrangement
- Reasons for limited duration of
employment
agreement
- The duration of the employment
agreement

Countries still have limited experience with measuring the new category of
dependent contractors. The proposed measurement approach for identifying
dependent contractors is based on two different tracks. The first track
identifies dependent contractors among those persons that perceive
themselves as being self-employed while the second starts by targeting
persons that self-identify as employees. The two tracks are a recognition that
within dependent contractors there are two sub-categories: workers who own
and operate their own business but do not have full control or authority over
their work, and workers who provide their labour to others but have
contractual arrangements that are akin to self-employment. The first group
would have a greater tendency to identify themselves as self-employed while
the latter would more frequently identify themselves as being employees. It is
hence necessary to identify dependent contractors among self-identified self-
employed as well as self-identified employees in order to identify all
dependent contractors.

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