The Americas

Street Vendors Organising: The Case of the Women’s Network (Red de Mujeres), Lima, Peru

Street vendors have occupied public space in central Lima since the colonial period, and the first recorded attempt to regulate street trade...

Measuring Non-Standard and Informal Employment in the United States Using Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-program Expansion and Economic CrisisReview of Development Economics

This article is included in a special issue of the journal which includes 11 articles focused on informality. 

Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Street Vendors

This report synthesizes qualitative and quantitative data from the first (2012) round of IEMS fieldwork in the street vendor sector in five...

Sumário Executivo: Relatório do Setor Estudo de Monitoramento de Economia Informal: Catadores

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...

Home-Based Work and Women’s Labor Force DecisionsJournal of Labor Economics

Abstract: Home‐based work differs from other employment because the work site is the home itself. This difference means that the fixed costs...

Construindo a cidadania: avanços e limites do Projeto de Coleta Seletiva em parceria com a ASMARE

Measuring informal employment in Mexico

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

Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

Brazil has replaced repressive policies on waste picking with new inclusive policies that give legal backing to redistributive measures and...