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Toward a Common Framework for Informal Employment across Developed and Developing Countries

This paper addresses the importance of developing a common framework for defining informal employment in developed countries, and highlights...

Relating Quality of Employment to Informal Employment

Statistical Brief 15 discusses the importance and relevance of the definition of informal employment to the economies of developed countries...

WIEGO Impact Evaluation – Evaluator’s Assessment Report Mainstreaming the Measurement of the Informal Economy

Global and regional estimation of informal sector employment: A methodology

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

The Contribution of Informal Sector to GDP in Developing Countries: Assessment, Estimates, Methods, Orientations for the Future

Presented at the 4th Meeting of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics; Geneva: 28-30 August 2000

Statistics on Street Vendors and Market Traders in Metropolitan Lima and Urban Peru

Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also...

Informal Sector, Poverty and Gender: A Review of Empirical Evidence

National Data on Employment in the Informal Sector/Informal Employment as a Basis for Global and Regional Estimates: Possibilities and Limitations

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

Women Working in the Informal Sector in Africa: New Methods and New Data

Paper prepared for the United Nations Statistics Division, the Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme...

Considerations for Revision of the International Classification of Status in Employment – ICSE-93

Many employment arrangements today do not fit easily within the existing International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93) either...