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Ce manuel a été élaboré pour deux objectifs essentiellement. Le premier est d’aider les pays qui envisagent de produire des statistiques sur le secteur informel et l’emploi informel à examiner et à analyser les options dont ils disposent. Le deuxième objectif est de donner des indications pratiques...
Se preparó este manual con dos objetivos principales. El primer objetivo es el de asistir a los países en la planificación para producir estadísticas del sector informal y del empleo informal para realizar una revisión y analizar sus opciones. El segundo objetivo es el de proporcionar una guía...
Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus on informal employment, and highlights the growing significance of four groups of urban informal workers: home-based workers, street vendors, domestic workers...
The study offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. A full report and an executive summary are available.
From the report's preface: "This report presents poverty and inequality trends based on data collected by Stats SA through the Income and Expenditure Survey (IES) 2005/2006 and 2010/2011, as well as the Living Conditions Survey (LCS) 2008/2009. The poverty indicators in this report have been derived...
This ILO-WIEGO publication is a significant step forward from the Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture (2002) in that it provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics...
This report presents statistics and trends on home-based workers in Pakistan, based on data from the Labour Force Survey for two points in time 2005-06 and 2008-09. This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series . View list of all WIEGO briefs .
This brief presents numbers and analysis of home-based workers in India from 1999-00 to 2011-12. It is based on data collected by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) through the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-00, 2004-05 and 2011-12. This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication...
This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition. It is based on analysis of the unit level datasets of the Nepal Labour Force Survey (NLFS), 2008 made available by the Central Bureau of Statistics...
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Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.