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inability to communicate with requesters and platforms and work rejected and
payment refused.
Regarding entrepreneurs, the decent work agenda provides a valuable
framework for considering effective ways for supporting entrepreneurs who
create employment for themselves and potentially for others.
Entrepreneurship can be a channel for instituting mechanisms that provide
greater protection and security to entrepreneurs and their families and
communities. Within a targeted decent work policy framework, entrepreneurs
(including marginalized women and youth entrepreneurs) can become aware
of their rights and entitlements to available resources. This can contribute to
combating discrimination in the labour market.
This paper seeks to present information to support further conceptual and
methodological development on the topics of MPWR, IPW and entrepreneurs
that can eventually lead to guidance on statistical measurement. The
remainder of the paper is structured around the following sections: concept
definitions; objectives, challenges and approaches; and conclusion and
discussion.

2. Concept definitions
Further development of the conceptual and methodological framework on
the three selected topics must start with the adopted concept definitions or,
in the absence of such a definition, a general understanding of the issue. This
section provides an overview of definitions for each topic covered in the paper.
Multi-party work relationships. The Resolution defines multi-party
work relationships as those involving a third party between a dependent
worker and the enterprise for which the work is performed (the user
enterprise). Workers in this category are by definition dependent and thus
include employees and dependent contractors. It should be noted, however,
that while contributing family workers (CFW) are also a subcategory of
dependent workers, they are not part of MPWR since by definition CFW must
assist a family or household member in their job (either in a market-oriented
business operated by the other member or in another job as an employee or
dependent contractor) and they are paid via intra-household transfers. In the
case of dependent contractors with MPWR, a third party (that is, the
economic unit with which the dependent contractor has a commercial contract
to produce the goods or services but which does not receive the output
produced by the worker) controls the worker’s access to raw materials, clients
or the market. Dependent contractors may be paid directly by the client, or
payment may be received through an intermediary that benefits from the work
performed.

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