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No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers - Fact Sheet

Zoe Elena Horn

Report available in English here . Informe disponible en español aquí . Fact Sheet available in English here . Ficha Técnica disponible en español aquí . Executive Summary available in English here . Sumário Executivo disponível em português aqui . Resumen Ejecutivo disponible en español aquí .

Afrontando la Crisis: Recesión Persistente, Inflación Creciente y la Fuerza Laboral de la Economía Informal (Ficha Técnica)

Zoe Horn

Report available in English here . Relatório disponível em português aqui . Informe disponible en español aquí . Fact Sheet available in English here . Ficha Técnica disponível em Português aqui . Ficha Técnica disponible en español aquí . Executive Summary available in English here . Sumário...

Sin Colchón que Amortigüe la Caída: La Crisis Económica Global y los Trabajadores de la Economía Informal (Ficha Tecnica)

Zoe Horn

No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

Zoe Elena Horn

No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

Zoe Elena Horn

The research shows that informal enterprises and informal wage workers are affected in many of the same ways as formal firms and formal wage workers. This report is the first output of a year-long study that will continue to monitor the impact of the economic downturn on people employed in the...

A Crise Econômica Global e a Economia Informal - Sumario Executivo

Zoe Elena Horn

China's Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China

Philip C. C. Huang

Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected by labor laws—in China today accounts for 168 million of the 283 million urban employed, but the official statistical apparatus in China still does not gather...

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda

Abstract: Most emerging economies are characterized by the presence of informal salary employment, often argued to be caused by stringent labor market regulation and to result in wage penalties compared to the formal sector. The actual picture is certainly more complex. In this paper, we use rich...

Social Protection, Citizenship and the Employment Relationship

Francie Lund

This paper addresses the issues of social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship, through the lens of South Africa. It argues that, while the focus on cash transfers as sound economic investment is to be welcomed, a parallel and complementary policy arena needs to explore how to...

Global Economic Crisis and the Informal Economy: “Smaller-and-Smaller Slivers of a Shrinking Pie”

WIEGO, Realizing Rights

This two-page flyer provides a snapshot of the impact of the global economic crisis on workers in the informal economy.

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No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers - Fact Sheet

Afrontando la Crisis: Recesión Persistente, Inflación Creciente y la Fuerza Laboral de la Economía Informal (Ficha Técnica)

Sin Colchón que Amortigüe la Caída: La Crisis Económica Global y los Trabajadores de la Economía Informal (Ficha Tecnica)

No Cushion to Fall Back On: The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

No Cushion to Fall Back On The Global Economic Crisis and Informal Workers

A Crise Econômica Global e a Economia Informal - Sumario Executivo

China's Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China

The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Social Protection, Citizenship and the Employment Relationship

Global Economic Crisis and the Informal Economy: “Smaller-and-Smaller Slivers of a Shrinking Pie”

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