Workers In The Informal Sector

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513575919

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The Global Informal Workforce by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The Global Informal Workforce is a fresh look at the informal economy around the world and its impact on the macroeconomy. The book covers interactions between the informal economy, labor and product markets, gender equality, fiscal institutions and outcomes, social protection, and financial inclusion. Informality is a widespread and persistent phenomenon that affects how fast economies can grow, develop, and provide decent economic opportunities for their populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to uncover the vulnerabilities of the informal workforce.

Author : Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464817540

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The Long Shadow of Informality by Franziska Ohnsorge,Shu Yu Pdf

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.

Author : Martha Chen,Françoise Carré
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429575389

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The Informal Economy Revisited by Martha Chen,Françoise Carré Pdf

This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority of the workforce in developing countries work in the informal economy, and in countries around the world new forms of informal employment are emerging. Yet the informal workforce is not well understood, remains undervalued and is widely stigmatised. Contributors to the volume bridge a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, development economics, law, political science, social policy, sociology, statistics, urban planning and design. The Informal Economy Revisited also focuses on specific groups of informal workers, including home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers, to provide a grounded insight into disciplinary debates. Ultimately, the book calls for a paradigm shift in how the informal economy is perceived to reflect the realities of informal work in the Global South, as well as the informal practices of the state and capital, not just labour. The Informal Economy Revisited is the culmination of 20 years of pioneering work by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing), a global network of researchers, development practitioners and organisations of informal workers in 90 countries. Researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and advocates will all find this book an invaluable guide to the significance and complexities of the informal economy, and its role in today’s globalised economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429200724, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Supriya Routh,Vando Borghi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317445258

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Workers and the Global Informal Economy by Supriya Routh,Vando Borghi Pdf

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic. Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.

Author : OECD,International Labour Organization
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264613201

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Development Centre Studies Tackling Vulnerability in the Informal Economy by OECD,International Labour Organization Pdf

A majority of workers in the world are informally employed and contribute to economic and social development through market and non-market activities that are not protected, regulated, well-recognised or valued. This study provides an in-depth diagnosis of informality and the vulnerability prevailing in the informal economy. It explores new ideas to improve the lives of workers in the informal economy based on the ILO indicators of informality and the new OECD Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIbIH).

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya,Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128330706

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Workers in the Informal Sector by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya,Jan Lucassen Pdf

Workers in the Informal Sector puts together papers by experts interested in situating workers in the so-called informal sector in the context of economic development in the historical past and the empirical evidence regarding the existential condition of

Author : Naila Kabeer,Ratna Sudarshan,Kirsty Milward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780324531

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Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy by Naila Kabeer,Ratna Sudarshan,Kirsty Milward Pdf

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste. As individuals - often isolated in reproductive or other home-based work - their weapons of resistance have tended to be restricted to the traditional weapons of the weak: hidden subversions and individualised struggles. Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy explores the emergence of an alternative repertoire among women working in the growing informal sectors of the global South: the weapons of organization and mobilization. This crucial book offers vibrant accounts of how women working as farm workers, sex workers, domestic workers, waste pickers, fisheries workers and migrant factory workers have organized for collective action. What gives these precarious workers the impetus and courage to take up these steps? What resources do they draw on in order to transcend their structurally disadvantaged position within the economy? And what continues to hamper their efforts to gain social recognition for themselves as women, as workers and as citizens? With first-hand accounts from authors closely involved in emerging organizations, this collection documents how women workers have come together to carve out new identities for themselves, define what matters to them, and develop collective strategies of resistance and struggle.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616351564

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Public Sector Debt Statistics by International Monetary Fund Pdf

The global financial crisis of recent years and the associated large fiscal deficits and debt levels that have impacted many countries underscores the importance of reliable and timely government statistics and, more broadly, public sector debt as a critical element in countries fiscal and external sustainability. Public Sector Debt Statistics is the first international guide of its kind, and its primary objectives are to improve the quality and timeliness of key debt statistics and promote a convergence of recording practices to foster international comparability and as a reference for national compilers and users for compiling and disseminating these data. Like other statistical guides published by the IMF, this one was prepared in consultation with countries and international agencies, including the nine organizations of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS). The guide's preparation was based on the broad range of experience of our institutions and benefitted from consultation with national compilers of government finance and public sector debt statistics. The guide's concepts are harmonized with those of the System of National Accounts (2008) and the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition.

Author : Sigamani Panneer,Sanghmitra S. Acharya,Nagarajan Sivakami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789811384219

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Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India by Sigamani Panneer,Sanghmitra S. Acharya,Nagarajan Sivakami Pdf

This book focuses on the core problems of occupational health, safety and well-being of workers in the informal sector in developing countries, where it accounts for most of the rural labour force and a substantial percentage of the urban labour force. The sector is characterised by low incomes, unstable employment and lack of protection in the form of legislation/policies or trade unions. Though some health and problem-solving measures have been introduced, a focused academic effort to address the problems confronting workers in the unorganised sector, or informal economy, is lacking. The book evaluates workers’ physical and mental health in the context of labour migration, social inclusion of minorities and the differently abled, provisions for women workers, demonetisation, occupational safety for hazardous work, and in connection with various areas of informal work, e.g. agriculture, construction, transportation, sanitation, tanning, the tobacco industry, powerloom industry, surrogacy, and self-employment. It provides a well-rounded description of an analytical reflection on the challenges these workers face and focuses on social policy changes to help alleviate them. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for researchers and students interested in development studies, the sociology of work, health and labour economics, public health, and social work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Employee rights
ISBN : UIUC:30112104421174

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The Informal Sector and Worker Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarbajit Chaudhuri,Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441911940

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Revisiting the Informal Sector by Sarbajit Chaudhuri,Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay Pdf

This book provides insight into the diverse aspects of the informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labor, globalization and environment, as well as its multi-faceted interaction with the other sectors of the economy.

Author : Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco Galrão Carneiro
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Empleo informal
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector by Andrew Henley,G. Reza Arabsheibani,Francisco Galrão Carneiro Pdf

"A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. In this paper the authors investigate the degree of congruence between three definitions of informality based on employment contract registration, social security protection, and the characteristics of the employer and employment using Brazilian household survey data for the period 1992 to 2001. The authors present evidence showing that 64 percent of the economically active population are informal according to at least one definition, but only 40 percent are informal according to all three. Steady compositional changes have been taking place among informal workers, conditional on definition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9221281701

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Women and Men in the Informal Economy by Anonim Pdf

This publication provides, for the first time, direct measures of informal employment inside and outside informal enterprises for 47 countries. It also presents statistics on the composition and contribution of the informal economy as well as on specific groups of urban informal workers.

Author : Sri Wening Handayani
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292575663

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Social Protection for Informal Workers in Asia by Sri Wening Handayani Pdf

This publication examines the need to expand social protection coverage of the informal sector to support working age productivity, reduce vulnerability, and improve economic opportunity. Case studies from Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand offer suggestions to close social protection gaps and recommend policy solutions to create equitable and inclusive social protection programs for informal workers.

Author : Gregory K. Schoepfle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Employee fringe benefits
ISBN : UIUC:30112081680172

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Work Without Protections by Gregory K. Schoepfle Pdf