Publications on informal economy

  1. ILO Working paper 25

    Homeworking in the Philippines: Bad job ? Good job ?

    09 March 2021

    This report focuses on two categories of homeworkers in the Philippines: industrial homeworkers, who assemble or fabricate goods for factories, retailers or their agents under subcontracting arrangements; and online workers, who render services to their clients or employers via telecommunications technologies and digital platforms.

  2. ILO Working paper 22

    Home-based work and homework in Ghana: An exploration

    22 January 2021

    This research report explores the nature and character of home-based work and the more narrow concept of homework in Ghana.

  3. ILO Working paper 1

    "System needs update":Upgrading protection against cyberbullying and ICT-enabled violence and harassment in the world of work

    13 February 2020

    The term ‘cyberbullying’ has been used to describe aggressive conducts carried out through information and communication technologies (ICT), and can involve picture/video clips, emails, or social network sites, among others.

  4. ILO/Sida Partnership on Employment Working Paper No. 2

    Growth and precariousness in Egypt

    12 December 2019

  5. MDW Information Guide

    Information Guide for Domestic Workers in Zimbabwe

    22 July 2016

    As part of the GAP-MDW Zimbabwe/Lesotho-South Africa migration corridor project, this information guide has been created for domestic workers in Zimbabwe.

  6. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 75

    Non-standard forms of employment in Latin America: Prevalence, characteristics and impacts on wages

    31 May 2016

  7. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 74

    Income security in the on-demand economy: Findings and policy lessons from a survey of crowdworkers

    01 May 2016

  8. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 70

    Non-standard forms of employment in Uganda and Ghana

    29 March 2016

  9. Publication

    Export-led development, employment and gender in the era of globalization

    16 February 2016

    EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 197

  10. Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 71

    The rise of the "just-in-time workforce": On-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the "gig-economy"

    14 January 2016