(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

(a) Operationalization of the conceptual framework of informal employment and the informal economy

A. Interregional cooperation on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

(c) Measuring the linkages between poverty and informal employment

8. Enhancing employment in the rural and informal sectors

Improving employment and working conditions in the informal sector

(d) Interregional programme of technical cooperation on the measurement of the informal sector and informal employment

(e) Methods of evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

The informal economy tends to favour employment growth over productivity growth.

Despite their importance, the informal sector and informal employment are poorly covered, if at all, by official statistics.

(e) Devising a checklist for the evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

This is part of the problem of employment in the informal job market.

Employment generation programmes in the informal sector have to be based on three essential measures.

(f) Further work on the measurement of the contribution of informal sector and informal employment to GDP, including work by regional and international organizations

One such factor is the fact that employment in the informal sector is the source of employment that is most readily available to women.

The vast majority of economically active people are dependent on informal employment and income generating activities.

(h) Continuation of conceptual and analytical work on measuring the links between poverty and informal employment.

9 ILO, Women and Men in the Informal Economy A Statistical Picture, Employment Sector paper (Geneva, 2002).

In urban areas, women mostly tried to find jobs in the informal sector and in domestic employment.

Many of them are concentrated in informal employment around 93 per cent of all jobs available to young people in developing countries are in the informal economy.34

Women have been displaced towards open unemployment and informal employment, which demands more effort and provides less income.

The general assumption that formal sector employment is preferred over informal sector activity also applies to Indonesian workers.

This chapter looks at three main aspects of employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina workers on lay off, employment in the informal sector and discrimination in the labour market.

The shift from waged labour to informal, unpaid family labour and self employment provides poor quality work and does not contribute to stabilization or expansion of employment.22

Homenet Indonesia influenced the Central Bureau of Statistics in institutionalizing the collection of data on women in informal employment.

Turkey reported that the difficulties experienced in finding employment in the formal sector pushed women into the informal economy.

(c) Field projects promoting employment and economic growth in the informal sector, and promotion of popular participation in development.

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

Where job growth has taken place, it has been concentrated in insecure, informal employment with low wages and few benefits.

Small and microenterprises and self employment, in both the formal and informal economies, are usually less productive than large firms.

The globalized environment was marked by shrinking economies and a reduction of employment opportunities, forcing many women into the informal sector.

However, the size and importance of the informal sector as a source of employment and work extends beyond the agricultural sector.

8. Measures should be taken to include persons with disabilities in training and employment programmes in the private and informal sectors.

The project addresses all aspects of these issues surrounding measurement of the informal sector and informal employment and attempts to place these new data within a framework covering the economy as a whole.

Laws 2639 98 and 2874 2000 Regulations regarding terms of exemption from Collective Labour Agreements (Territorial Employment Pacts) Promotion of part time employment and restrictions regarding working overtime Establishment of informal forms of employment (more specifically, temporary agency work by law 2956 2001).

(j) The Delhi Group recognized the importance of high quality data on status in employment for the reduction of coverage errors in mixed household and enterprise surveys of the informal sector, as well as of classification errors in surveys on informal employment and recommended that ILO develop a module of household survey questions on status in employment for testing by countries.

On the other hand, there are countless micro enterprises, mostly in the informal sector, which provide employment to poor people, especially women.

Since 1990, urban unemployment and informal employment have increased, and the number of those employed in the formal economy has been decreasing.

Note the category Others corresponds to all of the workers producing for personal use and informal employees (without an employment record book).