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Briefs Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of... Read More Statistical Briefs The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022 This brief describes the unprecedented census of waste pickers that took place in 2012 in Bogota, as mandated by rulings of the Constitutional... Read More Resource Documents Efforts of Argentina’s Informal Waste Pickers to Finance Decent Work and Social Protection through Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation Based on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, organizations of informal waste pickers in Argentina have drafted a law that... Read More Resource Documents Pune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social Protection Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally... Read More Working Papers Financing Universal Social Protection: The Relevance and Labour Market Impacts of Social Security Contributions This paper brings together existing evidence on the impact of social security contributions on labour markets, insights from public finance... Read More Law & Informality Insights Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned. Read More Working Papers Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs? This Working Paper uses the roll-out of Mexico’s Seguro Popular across municipalities to quantitatively assess its impact on private sector... Read More Research Reports Engendering informality statistics: gaps and opportunities: Working paper to support revision of the standards for statistics on informality Informality is a dynamic and multidimensional concern that demands gender-sensitive data. In 2018, globally, more than 60% of employment... Read More Resource Documents Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six Cities Key Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the... Read More Resource Documents Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and... Read More First Prev ... 5 6 7 ... 16 ... Next Last
Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposals The 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of... Read More
The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022 This brief describes the unprecedented census of waste pickers that took place in 2012 in Bogota, as mandated by rulings of the Constitutional... Read More
Efforts of Argentina’s Informal Waste Pickers to Finance Decent Work and Social Protection through Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation Based on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, organizations of informal waste pickers in Argentina have drafted a law that... Read More
Pune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social Protection Taking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally... Read More
Financing Universal Social Protection: The Relevance and Labour Market Impacts of Social Security Contributions This paper brings together existing evidence on the impact of social security contributions on labour markets, insights from public finance... Read More
Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin America Waste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned. Read More
Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs? This Working Paper uses the roll-out of Mexico’s Seguro Popular across municipalities to quantitatively assess its impact on private sector... Read More
Engendering informality statistics: gaps and opportunities: Working paper to support revision of the standards for statistics on informality Informality is a dynamic and multidimensional concern that demands gender-sensitive data. In 2018, globally, more than 60% of employment... Read More
Domestic Workers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact, Recovery and Resilience in Six Cities Key Findings Domestic workers’ ability to work and earn an income were negatively impacted throughout the pandemic and particularly at the... Read More
Waste Pickers During the COVID-19 Crisis: Pathways of Impact and Recovery in Five Cities Key Findings A year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, market shifts had exacerbated waste pickers’ structural disadvantages, and... Read More
