The Americas

Informal Employment in Latin America: Movements over Business Cycles and the Effects of Worker Rights

Situação Social das Catadoras e dos Catadores de Material Reciclável e Reutilizável (Região Centro-Oeste)

Coordenação – Sandro Pereira Silva, Fernanda Lira Goes, Albino Rodrigues Alvarez   Relatórios sobre outras regiões: Nordeste NorteSudeste Sul ...

The Urban Informal Workforce: Waste Pickers/Recyclers

These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

Estadísticas del empleo formal e informal. Datos relevantes. Perú. 2005-2011.

Este documento presenta datos estadísticos a nivel nacional sobre el empleo formal e informal en Perú para el periodo 2005-2011 basados en...

Labor Market Rigidities and Informality in ColombiaEconomía

Informality has been at the center of the economic debate in Colombia as a result of the high levels prevalent in the country and its substantial...

Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

El empleo informal en México visto bajo el esquema conceptual OIT- Grupo de Delhi

Broken laws, unprotected workers: Violations of employment and labour laws in America’s cities

The Informal Economy and Microenterprise in the United States

Field Forum, Issue 14