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Executive Summary – Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Waste Pickers in Bogotá, Colombia

Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers

Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...

The Formal and Informal Sectors in Colombia: Country Case Study on Labour Market Segmentation

Employment Working Paper No.146

Informal Cities and the Contestation of Public Space: The Case of Bogotá’s Street Vendors, 1988—2003Urban Studies

The resurgence of informal street trading poses serious challenges for local officials responsible for the maintenance of public space. This...

Measuring informal employment in Mexico

Seminar for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Cambridge, MA, 31 October – 1 November 2008

Unregulated work in the global city: Employment and labor violations in New York City

The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality

NELP Summary: This report updates NELP’s previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. More information...

Day labor, informality and vulnerability in South Africa and the United StatesInternational Journal of Manpower

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to compare conditions in informal day-labor markets in South Africa and the USA to better understand...

Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009