Statistics

Informality, Returns to Education and Labour Market Integration in China-The Indian Journal of Labour Economics

This study analyses data from household surveys in six large Chinese cities in 2010 to describe the nature of informal employment and estimate...

Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings and Benefits

Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Brief

This publication is a brief version of the 3rd edition of Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (ILO 2018). 

On Measuring Place of Work

Developing a Conceptual Framework for a Typology of Atypical Forms of Employment: Outline of a Strategy

Paper prepared for the Joint UNECE-Eurostat-ILO. Seminar on Measurement of the Quality of Employment. 22-29 May 2002.

Defining and Measuring Informal Employment in South Africa: A Review of Recent Approaches

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

South Africa’s Informal Economy: A Statistical Profile

This paper presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, and attempts to identify the economic...

Measuring Nonstandard Employment in the United States

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

Statistics on the Informal Economy: Lessons Learned from the International Compilation Exercise

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

Low Pay Among Wage Earners and the Self-employed in IndiaInternational Labour Review

Abstract: While inequality and poverty in India have been much studied, little attention has been given to the underlying role of the labour...