Edited volumes
Chen, M., M. Rogan and K. Sen, eds. 2024. COVID-19 and the Informal Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Alfers, L., M. Chen and S. Plagerson, eds. 2022. Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Chen, M. and F. Carré, eds. 2020. The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Book chapters
Alfers, L. 2020. “Social Protection and Informal Workers: Rethinking the Terms of Inclusion” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Alfers, L. 2022. “Informal Workers Co-Producing Social Services in the Global South: Shifting of Responsibility or Political Strategy Towards a New Social Contract?” in K. Hujo and M. Carter (eds.) Between Front Lines and Fault Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World. London: Bloomsbury.
Alfers, L. and R. Moussié. 2022. “Towards a More Inclusive Social Protection: Informal Workers and the Struggle for a New Social Contract” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.) Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Alfers, L. and F. Juergens-Grant. 2024. “Social protection, the COVID-19 crisis and the informal economy: lessons from relief for comprehensive social protection” in M. Chen, M. Rogan and K. Sen (eds.) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carré, F. 2020. “Informal Employment in Developed Countries: Relevance and Statistical Measurement” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Carré, F. 2022. “'Dependent Contractor’: Towards the Recognitions of a New Labor Category” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.) Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Carré, F., P. Horn and C. Bonner. 2020. “Collective Bargaining by Informal Workers in the Global South: Where and How It Takes Place” in J. Charmes (ed.) Research Handbook On Development and The Informal Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Cass Talbott, T. 2022. “Extended Producer Responsibility: Opportunities and Challenges for Waste Pickers” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.) Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Chen, M. 2020. “WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Variables and Findings” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Chen, M. and J. Vanek. 2024. “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment: findings from national labour surveys in five Latin American countries” in M. Chen, M. Rogan and K. Sen (eds.) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chen, M., E. Grapsa, G. Ismail, S.O. Reed, M. Rogan and M. Valdivia. 2024. “COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world” in M. Chen, M. Rogan and K. Sen (eds.) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chen, M., S. Plagerson and L. Alfers. 2024. “A new social contract inclusive of informal workers” in M. Chen, M. Rogan and K. Sen (eds.) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chen, M. 2022. “Self-Employment and Social Contracts: From the Perspective of the Informal Self-Employed” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.) Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Davy, J., A. Todd, R. Dobson, T. Quazi, P. Ndlovu and L. Alfers. 2021. "Reflections on Experiences Working Alongside Informal Traders at Warwick Junction in Durban: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Perspective" in J. Bezerra, C. Paterson and S. Paphitis (eds.) Challenging the Apartheids of Knowledge in Higher Education through Social Innovation. Johannesburg: African Sun Media.
Dias, S. 2020. “Waste and Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State in Brazil” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Dias, S. and L. Fernandez. 2020. “Formalisation from the Ground: The Case of Waste Pickers’ Cooperatives” in J. Charmes (ed.) Research Handbook On Development and The Informal Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Mhlana, S., R. Moussié, S. Roever and M. Rogan. 2024. “Informal employment and an inclusive recovery: what is missing from national economic recovery plans?” in M. Chen, M. Rogan and K. Sen (eds.) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rogan, M. 2020. “Agricultural production, the household ‘development cycle’ and migrant remittances: continuities and change in the Eastern Cape hinterland” in L. Bank, D. Posel and F. Wilson (eds.) Migrant Labour after Apartheid: The Inside Story. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press.
Ogando, A.C. and J. Harvey. 2020. “Knowledge co-production with and for organisations of informal workers: Building democratic capacity for social change” in J. Charmes (ed.) Research Handbook On Development and The Informal Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Parra Hinojosa, F., P. Schamber, F. Suárez, A. Alves, A. Alaniz, L. Fernández, C. Matonte and F. Sarandón. 2020. “Panorama sobre el reciclaje inclusivo en Colombia, Brasil, Chile, Uruguay y la Argentina” in P. Schamber and F. Suárez (eds.) Recicloscopio VI. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Universidad de General Sarmiento.
Reed, S. 2022. “Essential and disposable? Or just disposable?: Informal workers during COVID-19” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Roever, S. 2020. “Street Vendors and Regulations” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Roever, S. and A.C. Ogando. 2022. “Recognition, Responsiveness and Reciprocity: What Informal Worker Leaders Expect from the State, the Private Sector and Themselves” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.) Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rogan, M. 2022. “Taxation and the Informal Economy in the Global South: Strengthening the Social Contract without Reciprocity?” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.) Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2022. “The South African Informal Economy” in A. Oqubay, F. Tregenna, and I. Valodia (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rogan, M. and P. Cichello. 2020. “(Re)conceptualizing Poverty and Informal Employment” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2024. “South Africa’s informal economy and COVID-19: Differentiated impacts and an uneven recovery” in M. Chen, M. Rogan and K. Sen (eds.) COVID-19 and the Informal Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Skinner, C. 2024. “Global Circuits of Knowing” and “The Art of the Possible” in S. Oldfield, A. Selmeczi and C. Barnett (eds.) Knowing the City: Urban Scholarship from Apartheid to Democracy. Durban, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Skinner, C. and V. Watson. 2020. “The Informal Economy in Urban Africa: Challenging Planning Theory and Praxis” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.) The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Von Broembsen, M. 2020. “Regulating Corporations in Global Value Chains to Realise Labour Rights for Homeworkers” in M. Chen and F. Carré (eds.), The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future. London: Routledge.
Von Broembsen, M. 2020. “Social inclusion and the New Urban Agenda: street vendors and public space” in N. Davidson and G. Tewari (eds.) Law and the New Urban Agenda: A Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge.
Von Broembsen, M. 2022. “Human rights and transnational social contracts: the recognition and inclusion of homeworkers?” in L. Alfers, M. Chen and S. Plagerson (eds.), Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Von Broembsen, M. and J. Harvey. 2021. “Realizing Rights for Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains” in M. Nilsson, I. Mazumdar and S. Neunsinger (eds.) Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021). Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston: Brill.
Journal articles
Alfers, L. and R. Moussié. 2020. “The World Social Protection Report 2017-2019: An Assessment.” Development and Change. Vol. 51(2).
Akua Anyidoho, N., M. Gallien, M. Rogan and V. van den Boogaard. 2023. “Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E-levy.” Development Policy Review. Vol. 41(5).Doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12704.
Bhan, G., A. Surie, C. Horwood, R. Dobson, L. Alfers, A. Portela and N. Rollins. 2020. “Informal work and maternal and child health: a blind spot for public health and research.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Vol. 98(3).
Chen, M. 2020. “COVID-19, Cities and Urban Informal Workers: India in Comparative Perspective.” The Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Sept. 23.
Chen, M., E. Grapsa, G. Ismail, M. Rogan, M. Valdivia, L. Alfers, J. Harvey, A.C. Ogando, S. Reed and S. Roever. 2022. “COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities.” International Labour Review. Vol. 161 (1). Special Issue: “COVID-19 and the World of Work.” Doi/10.1111/ilr.12221.
Dinesh, K. 2022. “Homeworkers as Employees: The Emerging Jurisprudence in India.” Global Rights Reporter. Vol 2(1). Special Issue: “Protection of Workers in the Informal Economy.”
Friderichs, T., G. Keeton and M. Rogan. 2023. “Decomposing the impact of human capital on household income inequality in South Africa: Is education a useful measure?” Development Southern Africa. Vol. 40(5), 997–1013.
Friderichs, T., G. Keeton and M. Rogan. 2021. “Measuring human capital in South Africa using a socioeconomic status human capital index approach.” Development Southern Africa, Vol. 39(6). Doi: 10.1080/0376835X.2021.1941779.
Moussié, R. and L. Alfers. 2022. “Pandemic, informality and women’s work: Redefining social protection priorities at WIEGO.” Global Social Policy. Vol. 22(1).
Ogando, A.C., M. Rogan and R. Moussié. 2022. “Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and unpaid care work on informal workers’ livelihoods.” International Labour Review. Vol. 161 (2). Special Issue: “COVID-19 and the World of Work.”
Ogando, A. C. 2023. “Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Crucial Arms for Struggle.” IDS Bulletin, Vol. 54(2).
Parra, F. 2020. “The Struggle of Waste Pickers in Colombia: From being considered trash, to being recognised as workers.” Anti-Trafficking Review. Vol. 15.
Parra, F. 2022. “Waste Pickers’ Struggles Over Labor and Rights at the Colombian Waste Frontier.” Commodity Frontiers. Issue 4, Fall.
Skinner, C. and V. Watson. 2020. “Planning and informal food traders under COVID-19: the South African case.” Town Planning Review. Vol. 91(6).
Souza-Silva, G., T. Zolnikov, P. Ortolani, V. Cruvinel, S. Dias and M. Mol. 2021. “Hepatitis B and C prevalence in waste pickers: a global meta-analysis.” Journal of Public Health. Vol. 44.
Von Broembsen, M. 2022. “Collective Bargaining for Self-employed Street Vendors.” Global Rights Reporter. Vol. 2(1). Special Issue: “Protection of Workers in the Informal Economy”.
Peer reviewed working papers
Alfers, L. and F. Juergens-Grant. 2023. Social protection, the COVID-19 crisis, and the informal economy: Lessons from relief for comprehensive social protection. WIDER Working Paper 2023/93. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. Doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/401-4.
Anyidoho, N.A., M. Gallien, G. Ismail, F. Juergens-Grant, M. Rogan and V. van den Boogaard. 2022. Tight tax net, loose safety net: Taxation and social protection in Accra’s informal sector. WIEGO Working Paper No. 45. Manchester, UK: WIEGO.
Anyidoho, N.A., M. Gallien, M. Rogan and V. van den Boogaard. 2022. Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana’s E-Levy. ICTD Working Paper No. 146, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies. Doi:10.19088/ICTD.2022.012.
Chen, M., E. Grapsa, G. Ismail, S. Reed, M. Rogan and M. Valdivia. 2022. COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world. WIDER Working Paper No. 2022/45. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. Doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/176-1.
Chen, M. and J. Vanek. 2023. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment: Findings from national labour surveys in five Latin American countries. WIDER Working Paper 2023/94. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. Doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/402-1.
Mhlana, S., R. Moussié, S. Roever, S. and M. Rogan. 2023. Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans? WIDER Working Paper 2023/92. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. Doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2023/400-7.
Parra, F. and O. Abizaid. 2021. Formalization as Public Service Providers: Achievements and Obstacles for Colombia’s Waste Pickers. WIEGO Technical Brief No. 12. Manchester, UK: WIEGO.
Parra, F. and J. Vanek. 2023. The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022. WIEGO Statistical Brief No. 35. Manchester, UK: WIEGO (Also in Spanish).
Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2022. The COVID-19 Crisis and the South African Informal Economy: A Stalled Recovery. WIDER Working Paper No. 2022/40. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. Doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/171-6.
Rogan, M. and C. Skinner. 2020. The COVID-19 Crisis and the South African informal economy: ‘Locked out’ of livelihoods and employment. NIDS-CRAM Working Paper No. 10. National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM).
Von Broembsen, M. 2022. Supply Chain Governance: Arguments for worker-driven enforcement. Perspective. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.