The health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review [PDF]
Background Informal employment is unprotected and unregistered and it is often characterized by precarious working arrangements. Although being a global phenomenon and the most common type of employment worldwide, scholarly attention to its health ...
Amanda Emma Aronsson +4 more
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How does informal employment affect health and health equity? Emerging gaps in research from a scoping review and modified e-Delphi survey [PDF]
Introduction This article reports on the results from a scoping review and a modified e-Delphi survey with experts which aimed to synthesize existing knowledge and identify research gaps on the health and health equity implications of informal employment
Juyeon Lee, Erica Di Ruggiero
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Impact of informal employment on individuals’ psychological well-being: microevidence from China [PDF]
Objective The number of workers engaged in informal employment in China has reached 200 million individuals, constituting a substantial contribution to the pursuit of high-quality development and the attainment of stable employment objectives ...
Deshui Zhou, Qingqing Zhang, Jingshan Li
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Association between informal employment and depressive symptoms in 11 cities in Latin America [PDF]
Background: Mental health is an important contributor to the global burden of disease, and depression is the most prevalent mental disorder in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Informal jobs, often characterized by precarious working conditions, low
Tran B. Huynh +7 more
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Informal employment, precariousness, and decent work: from research to preventive action [PDF]
Decent work, defined by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1999 in relation to promoting productive and freely chosen employment, fair income, security in the workplace, guaranteeing rights at work, granting social protection, freedom of ...
Fernando G Benavides +2 more
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TRENDS OF EMPLOYMENT IN INFORMAL SECTOR IN ROMANIA DURING CRISIS;ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS [PDF]
The present paper emphasizes the size and trend of employment in the informal sector as affected during the recent years by the crisis and by showing the relation with informal economy. The paper is structured on three parts.
Pisica Silvia, Vasile Valentina
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An Analysis of the Determinants of Informal Employment in Urban and Rural Regions in Iran: Pseudo-Panel Data Approach [PDF]
Informal employment typically poses many problems for communities and governments. For example, most informal workers face problems relating to poverty and economic insecurity due to the lack of a social security organization and labor law in the ...
Shahryar Zaroki +2 more
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Avaliação da coleta seletiva por meio de indicadores de sustentabilidade em cidades brasileiras
In Brazil, door-to-door selective collection is the responsibility of municipal administrations and may be operated by municipalities, contracted companies and/or waste picker organizations.
Gina Rizpah Besen +4 more
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Informal Employment as a Threat to Social Security in the Labor Market in Ukraine within an Economic Transformation [PDF]
The specific features of informal employment, which is one of the main threats to social security in the labor market, in the context of transformational changes in the economic environment have been identified, and current trends in informal employment ...
Bondarevska Kseniia V.
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The globalization of the economy has caused the use of informal labor in many sectors and countries. Policies and measures to solve this problem have been attempted, but informal employment has become a difficult problem to solve, both worldwide and in ...
Rümeysa Çelik +2 more
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