Self-Employment in Light of the Cuban Reality: Trends and Challenges in the 21st Century

Abstract

The work presented provides some reflections on the world of work and its behavior in contemporary Cuban society in the 21st century. The forms of non-state management since 2011, together with the state sector of economy and other forms of property, form a new panorama in terms of employment, wages and income policy. The objective of the work is to reflect on self-employment, as a new type of employment, considering their behavior, trends and challenges. As a result, it is argued that this type of employment has occupied a fundamental space within the forms of management and production and, has contributed significantly, to the occupation and obtaining of income of a large part of the citizens, as part of the transformations that the updating of the economic and social development model supports in recent years.