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Informal Sector Employment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries in SDG Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
The understanding of the role of informal employment in economic growth is important to facilitate developing countries in safeguarding the decent work, productive employment, and inclusive growth agenda mentioned in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 8.
Nahid Sultana, Mohammad Mafizur Rahman
exaly   +3 more sources

Employment in the informal economy: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2020
PurposeAlthough the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic appears to disproportionately affect those in informal employment, they often receive less government support than the formally employed.
Ronald W McQuaid, Aleksandra Webb
exaly   +3 more sources

Informal employment as a frontier of occupational safety and health research [PDF]

open access: yesInd Health, 2019
A large segment of workers worldwide have informal employment; that is, jobs that are “not subject to national labor legislation, income taxation, social protection or entitlement to certain employment benefits (advance notice of dismissal, severance pay,
K. Fujishiro
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Modeling of informal employment factors

open access: yesВестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета
Introduction. The problem of reducing the level of informal employment has worsened in the last 3 years against the background of geopolitical crises.
Yu. A. Metel, O. A. Lepekhin
doaj   +2 more sources

An Analysis of the Determinants of Informal Employment in Urban and Rural Regions in Iran: Pseudo-Panel Data Approach [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Avaliação da coleta seletiva por meio de indicadores de sustentabilidade em cidades brasileiras

open access: yesDesenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Is Informal Employment a Safety Net in Times of Crisis? Evidence from Serbia

open access: yesJournal of Human Resource Management, 2017
This paper deals with the analysis of movements and causes of the informal employment in Serbia from the period of 1990s until the present time. Based on the results of the survey, it is not possible to confirm the assumption that informal employment ...
Anna Jaskova
doaj   +1 more source

Informal employment on domestic care platforms: a study on the individualisation of risk and unpaid labour in mature market contexts

open access: yesTransfer - European Review of Labour and Research, 2023
This article explains how digitally mediated provision of domestic care services perpetuates the invisibility and informality of such work through individualising risk, which we operationalise by one of its dimensions, that of unpaid labour.
V. Pulignano   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Gendered Relationship Between Temporary, Informal Employment and Wages: Evidence from the Turkish Labor Market

open access: yesFeminist Economics, 2023
This article examines the relationship between types of employment and wages by gender and gender pay gaps among permanent, temporary, and informal workers.
Anil Duman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Informal employment and catastrophic health expenditures: Evidence from Pakistan.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2023
Workers in informal employment suffered significant out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures (OOPHEs) due to their low earnings and a lack of a social safety net or health insurance.
S. Kishwar   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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