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Bassi et al. Working Paper September 2024

Self-employment within the firm

Working paper 10 Sep 2024 Firms

This paper uses data from a sample of 1,000 manufacturing firms in Uganda, finding that they more closely resemble collections of self-employed individuals sharing production spaces than modern firms in which labour is specialised.

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Bassi et al. Working Paper September 2024

Authors

Vittorio Bassi

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Southern California

Jung Hyuk Lee

Researcher

Alessandra Peter

Researcher

Tommaso Porzio

Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor in the Economics Division, Columbia University

Ritwika Sen

Assistant Professor of Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich., Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Tugume Esau

Research Associate, BRAC
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