Informal is the new normal: improving the lives of workers at risk of being left behind
皇冠体育app adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has given a new urgency to efforts to confront deficits in employment
Abstract
皇冠体育app adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has given a new urgency to efforts to confront deficits in employment. 皇冠体育app authors take up the call to improve the working conditions of informal workers who face being left behind given that processes of formalisation are unlikely to incorporate them in the near term in many countries. Indeed, there is evidence that levels of informal employment are increasing. 皇冠体育appy stress the heterogeneity of the informal workforce in terms of, firstly, different types of workers (e.g. contributing family workers, homeworkers, informal wage workers and own-account workers) and, secondly, patterns of vulnerability, highlighting gender.
This work is part of the 鈥楳acroeconomics in Low-income countries鈥� programme
Citation
Elizabeth Stuart, Emma Samman and Abigail Hunt (2018) Informal is the new normal: improving the lives of workers at risk of being left behind. Overseas Development Institute Workign paper 530