Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

The Jobs Crisis: What Are the Implications for Employment and Social Policy?

Background document for the OECD Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting, Paris, 28-29 Sept 2009: 8-9.

Flexibility of Labour in Globalizing India

Formal and Informal Employment in El Salvador: A Study of Labour Development

Report to the Global Policy Network

Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry

IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) Discussion Paper, No. 5053

Labor Mobility Across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

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The Informal Workforce and Public Policy

WIEGO translated this article into English (with permission) from the original, published in Trabajo Informal, Este Pais, in July 2013.  ...

Women and Informality: A Global Picture, the Global Movement SAIS Review

Over the past two decades, employment in the informal sector has risen rapidly in all regions in the world. Until the recent Asian economic...

Informality in the process of development and growth

Abstract: “Informality” is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the...

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

In 2009, researchers in 14 urban locales in 10 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America conducted individual and focus group interviews...