All publications: informal employment + informal enterprises + informal economy

Informal employment in Sri Lanka: Nature, probability of employment, and determinants of wages

A discussion paper on informal employment situation and wages in Sri Lanka.

Business group formation

The Business Group Formation (BGF) manual was developed with a view to help promote business group formation as a way to empower women and men in low-income communities by giving them more voice and improving their businesses in order to enhance...

Administrative Note: ILO/Korea Fellowship Training on Participatory Approaches to Improve Working and Employment Conditions in the Informal...

ILO/BDS Zambia: Developing Business Service Markets for Micro and Small Enterprises in Zambia (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project ZAM/03/01/SID

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Employment, unemployment and informality in Zimbabwe - Concepts and data for coherent policy-making

This current paper presents a comprehensive overview on Employment, Unemployment and Informality in Zimbabwe. It begins by discussing how the colonial legacy still shapes the way informality is viewed, and then introduces some statistical concepts...

ILO Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare

Decent work and informal employment: A survey of workers in Glen View, Harare

This paper is part of the Policy Integration and Statistics Department’s ongoing work on the measurement of informal employment and decent work, and aims to aid the ILO’s constituents (workers, employers and government) in their efforts to formulate...

Working Paper No. 91 - Decent work and informal employment: A survey of workers in Glen View, Harare

Working Paper No. 90 - Employment, unemployment and informality in Zimbabwe: Concepts and data for coherent policy-making

Skills, productivity and employment growth. The case of Latin America

The aim of this study is to illustrate the relations between training and workers' skills, productivity and the growth of quality employment in societies in Latin America by means of an analysis of the existing information and case studies of four...

Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) QATAR 2006-2007 (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project QAT/05/01/SDQ - Evaluation consultant: Tim Dyce

Labour market scenarios for the Asian Decent Work Decade in the Pacific Island countries

This paper presents key trends in the economies and labour markets of Pacific island countries and the main issues facing policy-makers in promoting decent and productive employment in these economies. It presents past trends and projections in...

International Migration Papers No. 93

Integrating migration issues into development planning

International labour migration and its linkages with development have been prominent on the global policy agenda in the recent years. The Resolution on a Fair Deal for Migrant Workers in a Global Economy adopted by the 92nd Session of the ILO’s...

International Migration Papers No. 92

Migrants and informal Work in Hungary

This report on Hungary examines the situation of irregular employment of migrants, its terms and conditions of work, its evolution, its causes and the policies needed to eliminate such a situation. The premise is that irregular employment is...

International Migration Papers No. 91

Legal prohibitions against employment discrimination available to migrant workers employed in Europe: A review of international instruments...

Policies on labour migration include measures of different types and pursue the realization of a number of objectives. In countries of destination, some policy measures are aimed at governing and managing flows with a view to adjusting the number...

Second edition, May 2008

GET Ahead for women in enterprise training package and resource kit

Targets women in poverty who want to start or are already engaged in small-scale business.

Report IV: Promotion of rural employment for poverty reduction

Women, gender and the informal economy: An assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward

This discussion paper provides an overview of ILO research on women, gender and the informal economy which was undertaken during the last two decades. It examines methodological and analytical frameworks used in various studies, identifies research...

Skills and productivity in the informal economy

Employment Working Paper No. 5

Projet Croissance - Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth Component I: Building a common policy understanding, Project Overview (Final...

Projects RAF/05/62/SID, RAF/05/63/SID, RAF/05/64/SID - Evaluation team: Agnès Deshormes (team leader), Mamy Ratolojanahari, Kaj Thorndahl and Theresa Smout

Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) Papua New Guinea (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project PNG/03/02/AUS - Evaluator: Tony Powers