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Informal Sector, Poverty and Gender: A Review of Empirical Evidence

The Lighthouse Effect and Beyond

Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns

Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus...

Informal, Non‐standard, Precarious: Concepts and measurements in France and EU; implications for international comparative evaluations

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

Surveys on Informal Sector: Objectives, Method of Data Collection, Adequacy of the Procedure and Survey Findings

Prepared for ILO-Latin America/WIEGO Latin America Regional Workshop on Statistics on the Informal Economy, Santiago, Chile

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

Estimating the Number and Economic Contribution of Home-Based Garment Producers in Ahmedabad

NCAER Working Paper Series No. 75

(In)dependent Contractor Misclassification

Numerous state-level studies show that between 10 and 20 percent of employers misclassify at least one worker as an independent contractor. ...

Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture 3rd edition

In this third edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture, the ILO presents the first global estimates of informal...

Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector