The health consequences of informal employment among female workers and their children: a systematic review [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2023 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]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 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]
International Journal of Mental Health SystemsObjective 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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Research on the Influence of Informal Employment on Residents’ Happiness in China: Empirical Analysis Based on CLDS Data [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 The influence of informal employment on residents’ happiness has gained wide attention around the world. However, few studies focus on this topic in China.
Jiahao Song, Xiaowen Dai, Hongxing Lan
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Informal employment, precariousness, and decent work: from research to preventive action [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 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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Association between informal employment and depressive symptoms in 11 cities in Latin America [PDF]
SSM Popul Health, 2022 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).
Trân B. Huỳnh +7 more
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Informal Employment, Working Conditions, and Self-Perceived Health in 3098 Peruvian Urban Workers [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Peru has one of the highest informal employment rates in Latin America (73%). Previous studies have shown a higher prevalence of poor self-perceived health (P-SPH) in informal than in formal workers.
Michael Silva-Peñaherrera +4 more
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Informal employment and poor self-perceived health in Latin America and the Caribbean: a gender-based comparison between countries and welfare states in a pooled analysis of 176,786 workers [PDF]
Global Health, 2021 Background More than half of the working population in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries is engaged in informal employment. The few previous studies indicate that this employment condition could have negative consequences for workers’ health ...
M. Utzet +4 more
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Informal Employment in the Forest Sector: A Scoping Review
Forests, 2022 Informal employment has been observed for decades and inevitably accompanies the formal economy globally, and it does not disappear to date along with economic growth.
Rattiya Suddeephong Lippe +2 more
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More than mirror images: Health associations of transitions between formal and informal employment [PDF]
SSM: Population HealthInformal employment is an important social determinant of health, yet little is known about whether transitions into and out of informal employment are associated with health in similar ways.
Liwen Chen, Kun Liu
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