History, Debate and Theory

Learning From Experience: A Gendered Approach to Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy

This publication provides a framework of analysis and an overview of current practice in social protection. It was created to serve as a...

Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour

Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America: A Review of Recent Trends

An exploration into the nature of informal—formal sector relationships

Flexibilization, Globalization, and Privitization: Three Challenges to Labor Rights in Our Time

Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: A Critical Analysis

Chapter can be accessed through Google Scholar or download the book, The Development Decade? in its entirety.

Social Policy and Employment: Rebuilding the Connections

This brief points to the inappropriate decoupling of social policy from employment objectives and outlines their intrinsic links. It argues...

Special Issue on Labor Law Reforms in India

The issue features an article on law and the self-employed in India (see pp 133-150, Legal Reforms for the Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases),...

Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Old and new forms of informal labour

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.