Theme: History, Debate and Theory

Getting Institutions Right? Local Government and Street Traders in Four South African Cities

Measuring the Unorganized Sector in India

2013 World Development Report on Jobs

The 2013 World Development Report on Jobs stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that...

Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment

Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India: Part II – ‘Informal’ Industry

This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as case-studies, to trace the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy,...

Introduction: Informality—Concepts, Facts and Models

From the article: “This article introduces a symposium on informality which pushes forward the research frontier by presenting new...

Women, gender and work: Social choices and inequalities (volume 2)

This second volume of Women, Gender and Work is an invitation to reflect upon the connections between measured labour market outcomes and...

Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policymakers and Other Stakeholders

The Investment Climate for the Informal Economy: A Case of Durban, South Africa

Why Earn Less? Gender-based Factors Affecting the Earning of Self-Employed Women in Turkey