Statistics

South Africa’s Informal Economy: A Statistical Profile

This paper presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, and attempts to identify the economic...

Measuring Nonstandard Employment in the United States

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Statistics on the Informal Economy: Lessons Learned from the International Compilation Exercise

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

Low Pay Among Wage Earners and the Self-employed in IndiaInternational Labour Review

Abstract: While inequality and poverty in India have been much studied, little attention has been given to the underlying role of the labour...

Women’s Work: Measurement, Nature and the Informal Sector

Note on Concepts and Techniques for Estimating the Contribution of Women Working in the Informal Sector

Presented at the Delhi Group Meeting on Informal Sector Statistics, Ankara, April 28-30, 1998

Defining and measuring informal employment

Abstract: The paper summarises the international statistical definition of the informal sector as adopted by the Fifteenth International...

Unlocking the Labor Force: An Economic Update on Cameroon

From a news article by The World Bank about this paper: “The labor market in Cameroon is characterized by a large informal sector,...

Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities.

On Measuring Place of Work