Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

The Global Financial Crisis and South Africa: What has Been the Impact on the Labour Market?

Conference Paper, 27-29 October 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tracking Study of Cambodian Garment Sector Workers Affected by the Global Economic Crisis: Benchmarking Survey Report

No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage...

Measuring Informality

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

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China’s Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China

Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected...

The Global Crisis, Unemployment and HIV/ AIDS: What Role for Public Works Programmes?

Coping with Crises: Lingering Recession, Rising Inflation, and the Informal Workforce

In 2009, researchers in 14 urban locales in 10 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America conducted individual and focus group interviews...

Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General Trends and Gender Dimensions

Egypt: growing informality, 1990-2003