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Journal ArticlesThe Importance of Being ‘Rurban’Economic and Political WeeklyA categorical distinction is facing rough weather–that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the... Read More Research ReportsInformal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturingThe vast informal sector in India affects everything from poverty to growth. This column presents new facts on how Indian job growth in manufacturing... Read More Research Reports(In)dependent Contractor MisclassificationNumerous state-level studies show that between 10 and 20 percent of employers misclassify at least one worker as an independent contractor. ... Read More Journal ArticlesInformality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforumStreet vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood... Read More Research ReportsThe transition from the informal to the formal economyReport V(1) at 104th Session, 2015 Read More Research ReportsValuing Informal Integration: Inclusive Recycling in North Africa and the Middle EastReport highlighting cases from North Africa and the Middle East of inclusive waste management systems. Lessons for improved practice in waste... Read More Books & Book ChaptersIn It Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits AllThe gap between rich and poor keeps widening. Growth, if any, has disproportionally benefited higher income groups while lower income households... Read More Books & Book ChaptersEmployment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Universal social protection in labour markets with high levels of informalityThe Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a twice-yearly report prepared jointly by the Economic Development Division... Read More Statistical BriefsA Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official StatisticsThis brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,... Read More Research ReportsEnforcement Strategies for Empowerment: Models for the California Domestic Workers Bill of RightsUCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research and Policy Brief No. 30 Read More First Prev ... 37 ... 46 47 48 ... 57 ... Next Last
The Importance of Being ‘Rurban’Economic and Political WeeklyA categorical distinction is facing rough weather–that between urban and rural. If we take just agriculture, there is so much of the... Read More
Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturingThe vast informal sector in India affects everything from poverty to growth. This column presents new facts on how Indian job growth in manufacturing... Read More
(In)dependent Contractor MisclassificationNumerous state-level studies show that between 10 and 20 percent of employers misclassify at least one worker as an independent contractor. ... Read More
Informality and the state’s ambivalence in the regulation of street vending in transforming Guangzhou, ChinaGeoforumStreet vending faces uncertain state responses in contemporary Chinese cities, though it plays an important role in sustaining the livelihood... Read More
Valuing Informal Integration: Inclusive Recycling in North Africa and the Middle EastReport highlighting cases from North Africa and the Middle East of inclusive waste management systems. Lessons for improved practice in waste... Read More
In It Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits AllThe gap between rich and poor keeps widening. Growth, if any, has disproportionally benefited higher income groups while lower income households... Read More
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Universal social protection in labour markets with high levels of informalityThe Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a twice-yearly report prepared jointly by the Economic Development Division... Read More
A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official StatisticsThis brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,... Read More
Enforcement Strategies for Empowerment: Models for the California Domestic Workers Bill of RightsUCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research and Policy Brief No. 30 Read More
