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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
Informal Workers in Peru: A Statistical Profile, 2015–2021 This brief examines data on employment in Peru from 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and analyzes the changes in employment brought by the COVID-19... Read More
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