Women and men in the informal economy: a statistical picture

By F. Bonnet. 2018

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The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation (2016, background): “Published b middle-income countries (ILO, 2013).”
Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “Over the past few decades however, the informal sector has been recognized as an extensive and persistent feature of the developing world, equivalent to some 40–60% of GDP (Schneider & Williams, 2013), with 60% of the workforce having their main employment in the informal economy (J€utting & Laigles”
Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (2021, background): “Female farmers dedicate more hours to unpaid family work, have lower access to off-farm labor and, when they do get laboring work, are paid less than men (FAO 2011; ILO 2016).”
COVID-19 and undeclared work: impacts and policy responses in Europe (2020, background): “participation in undeclared work is often portrayed as resulting from their ‘exclusion’ from the declared economy (Davis, 2006; Gallin, 2001; ILO, 2018).”