The Americas

Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças

Trabalhadoras Informais se Mobilizando pelo Cuidado das Crianças argumenta que benefícios à maternidade e os serviços de cuidado infantil...

RéplicaNexos

Sin duda los problemas del crecimiento económico en México merecen estar en el centro de la discusión pública.

Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

Informality in Latin America: Facts and Opportunities

This paper was written as a contribution to a WIEGO/OECD project under the OECD Regional Reviews on Informality.

Catadores nas políticas públicas

Especial – Vida nas ruas População em situação de rua e o direito à Cidade

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

This paper analyzes the national, regional and local budgeting allocations for programmes and services targeting (directly or indirectly)...

Depressive and anxiety symptoms among housemaidsAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine

Background: Housemaid, the most common occupation in the female labor force in Brazil, is known to be targeted by a generalized racial and...

Improving the Regulatory Framework for Income Enhancement of the Urban Poor: A Case Study of Lima

The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

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

(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. ...