Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction : a handbook for policy - makers and other stakeholders

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Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment (2007, unknown): “It should be noted that workers are caught between two contradictory trends: rapid flexibilization of the employment relationship (making it easy for employers to contract and expand their workforce as needed) and slow liberalization of labour mobility (making it difficult for labour to move easily ”
The Informal Economy (2016, background): “Because women tend to be concentrated in the more vulnerable forms of informal employment, supporting working poor women in the informal economy is a key pathway to reducing women’s poverty and gender inequality.(3,4) Improving the work conditions and work environment of poorer informal workers is k”
The Unpaid Care Work–Paid Work Connection (2008, unknown): “…84 per cent compared to 63 per cent of male workers (table 3-2); in Latin America this ratio is 58 per cent for women vis-à-vis 48 per cent for men, while in Asia the proportion of female and male non-agricultural workers in informal employment is roughly equivalent (ILO 2002; Chen et al., 2004).”