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Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Analyzing the Implementation of C189 in Latin America and the CaribbeanThis Resource Document examines the measures that 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries have taken towards implementing C189: Argentina,... Read More
Income floors: Understanding the different policy proposalsThe 2020 global pandemic catalyzed great interest in the potential of social protection to support incomes and livelihoods during times of... Read More
The Collection of Data on Waste Pickers in Colombia, 2012-2022This brief describes the unprecedented census of waste pickers that took place in 2012 in Bogota, as mandated by rulings of the Constitutional... Read More
Informal Workers in Peru: A Statistical Profile, 2015–2021This brief examines data on employment in Peru from 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and analyzes the changes in employment brought by the COVID-19... Read More
Efforts of Argentina’s Informal Waste Pickers to Finance Decent Work and Social Protection through Extended Producer Responsibility LegislationBased on the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, organizations of informal waste pickers in Argentina have drafted a law that... Read More
Pune Waste Pickers’ Innovative Efforts to Fund the Extension of Decent Work and Social ProtectionTaking inspiration from India’s long experience with welfare boards, which provide social protection for self-employed workers and are generally... Read More
Financing Universal Social Protection: The Relevance and Labour Market Impacts of Social Security ContributionsThis paper brings together existing evidence on the impact of social security contributions on labour markets, insights from public finance... Read More
Did Mexico’s Seguro Popular Universal Health Coverage Programme Really Reduce Formal Jobs?This Working Paper uses the roll-out of Mexico’s Seguro Popular across municipalities to quantitatively assess its impact on private sector... Read More
Defending Waste Pickers’ Livelihoods: Lessons from Litigation in Latin AmericaWaste pickers have won several legal actions in Latin America over the past two decades. This edition looks at the lessons learned. Read More
Pessoas em emprego informal no Brasil: Um perfil estatísticoPessoas trabalhadoras do Brasil, pessoas trabalhadoras domésticas do Brasil, pessoas catadoras de recicláveis brasileiras, COVID-19 no Brasil. ... Read More
