Arab States

Informal Employment: Rethinking Workforce Development

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

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The Informal Sector in Waste Recycling in Egypt

Wages and Bottlenecks: Home-Based Work and Factory System in Istanbul

Paper from the International Conference on Globalization and Its Discontents, SUNY Cortland, 2007

Informality, Employment and Economic Development in the Arab World

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Stitched Up: Poverty wages for garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey

A report released in June 2014 by Clean Clothes Campaign shows that garment workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey are paid poverty wages and...

Revisiting CEDAW’s Recommendations: Has anything changed for migrant workers in Israel in the last two years?

From the paper’s introduction: “Two years ago, in early 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

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

Roadmap for Tunisian Leadership: Integrating the Informal Economy

The roadmap addresses the economic exclusion of informal workers in Tunisia and presents strategies for incorporating the informal sector...

Industrialization and New Forms of Employment in Tunisia