Breaking the Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low-Paying Work
This report adds two perspectives on informality. First, it disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to their ch...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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OECD Publishing
2024
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| Collection: | OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This report adds two perspectives on informality. First, it disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to their children in the absence of adequate education, skills and social protection policy. Second, the report underscores the double burden of informality and low-paying work that a large share of workers in developing and emerging economies carry, and as such calls for policy solutions that go beyond the formalisation agenda and embrace the goal of social justice |
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| Physical Description: | 166 p. 21 x 28cm |
| ISBN: | 9789264592322 9789264700079 9789264352063 |