Arab States

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

Turkey Seen Through the Prism of Occupational Diseases

It is hard to diagnose and recognise an occupational disease (OD) because the diagnosis must prove the occupational factors which caused...

Informal economy and labour market policies and institutions in selected Mediterranean countries: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Algeria and Morocco

The Evolution of Labor Supply and Unemployment in the Egyptian Economy: 1988-2012

ERF Working Paper No. 806

Regional Update for Africa & Middle East Global Conference HBW 2015

Presentation from the 2005 Global Conference on Home-Based Workers (HBW) organized by WIEGO and HomeNet South Asia (HNSA).

Informal Employment in the Arab Countries: Realities and Rights

Presentation by Samir Aita on informal employment in Arab countries given during the 2017 launch of the Arab Watch Report on Informal Employment. ...