All publications: informal employment + informal enterprises + informal economy

COVID-19 and the informal economy in Africa

The impact of COVID-19 on the informal economy in Africa and the related policy responses

Africa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is just beginning to take shape. While the delayed spread of the Coronavirus has given the continent some preparatory head time, the varying economic, social and political contexts are making it harder for...

COVID-19 Pandemic in the World of Work

ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. 2nd Edition

Short-term Policy Responses to COVID-19 in the World of Work

The note prepared by ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and India offers the possible actions that could be considered during COVID-19 crisis by the state governments. It has special focus on informal sector workers.

Transition to formality

Transition to Formality and Structural Transformation: Challenges and Policy options

The book examines “new forms of informality” in developed and developing countries, and how our policies can be improved to respond to new evolving realities.

Building inclusive markets for refugee and host communities

STRENGTHEN Publication Series

Employment Impact Assessments: Integrating the informal sector into social accounting matrices and computable general equilibrium models

STRENGTHEN Publication Series Working Paper No. 6

A compendium of practice

Interactions between Workers’ Organizations and Workers in the Informal Economy: A Compendium of Practice

A compilation of concrete examples, drawn from around the world, showing how trade unions have sought to reach out to workers in the informal economy to reduce the decent work deficits they face and support their transition to formality.

Summary

Chapter 5. The transition to formality: Comparing policy approaches in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Summary of the Chapter 5 of the Global Employment Policy Review (First edition).

Research Department Working Paper n°53

Gender inequality and old-age income security: The case of Mexico

Flagship Report

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020

This report provides an overview of global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity.

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 254

Informal Employment Trends in the Indian Economy: Persistent informality, but growing positive development

EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 253

Youth transitions and lifetime trajectory

The Youth Transition To Formality

ESSA Project

Extension of social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region

The report outlines recent trends in informal employment, challenges and opportunities for extending social protection, by different categories of workers and countries. It also documents relevant country experiences and lessons, and proposes...

ESSA Project

How to extend social protection to workers in informal employment in the ASEAN region

This policy brief is based on the findings and recommendations of the report, Expansion of Social Protection to Workers in Informal Employment, from the International Labour Organization. The report outlines recent trends in informal employment as...

Reflections on work. Perspectives from the Southern Cone of Latin America on the occasion of the ILO Centenary

The articles in this book explore many of the ILO’s core topics and how they have evolved over time. Some topics have persisted as concerns since the time of the ILO’s creation, whereas others – like just transition to environmental sustainability –...

The Unpaid Care Work and the Labour Market. An analysis of time use data based on the latest World Compilation of Time-use Surveys

The Employment Generation Impact of Meeting SDG Targets in Early Childhood Care, Education, Health and Long- Term Care in 45 Countries

Bangladesh

A Decade of Skills Development: The ILO in Bangladesh 2008-2018

For more than a decade, the ILO has worked closely with the Government of Bangladesh, and a network of social partners, to reform the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector and to improve access for people to increase their...

ILO/Sida Partnership on Employment Working Paper No. 2

Growth and precariousness in Egypt