Author : Sylvia Chant
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN : 9789221206088
Reviews ILO research on women, gender and the informal economy. It compares and contrasts analytical and methodological frameworks used in various studies, identifies research gaps and directions for future research, and indicates key findings that may assist concerned ILO units in taking action and formulating policy directions.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Pay equity
ISBN : 9789221307952
Since the ILO's founding in 1919, gender equality and non-discrimination have been pillars of its mission to promote social justice through the world of work. As the Organization approaches its second century, it has chosen to focus on women at work as one of its centenary initiatives. Women at Work: Trends 2016 is a key contribution to these efforts and seeks to further the central goals of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The report provides a picture of where women stand today in the world of work and how they have progressed over the past 20 years. It examines the global and regional labour market trend and gaps, including in labour force participation rates, employment-to-population rates and unemployment rates, as well as differences in the type and status in employment, hours spent in paid and unpaid work, sectoral segregation and gender gaps in wages and social protection. It also presents an in-depth analysis of the gender gaps in the quality of work and explores the key policy drivers for gender transformative change. The discussions and related recommendations focus on three main dimensions: sectoral and occupational segregation, the gender wage gap, and gaps in the policy framework for work and family integration.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Economic development
ISBN :
Describes the informal economy and highlights its decent work deficit. Proposes an integrated strategy to address underlying causes of informality and to promote decent work in all sectors of the economy, from formal to informal.
Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821369202
This book examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 FIAS Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment report, this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens.
Author : Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1780326335
In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning. While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic responsibilities due to patriarchic norms, a new form of urban dynamism - partly informed by the informal economy - is now enabling them to manage poverty, create jobs and link to the circuits of capital and labour. Relying on social ties, reciprocity, sharing and collaboration, women's informal 'solidarity entrepreneurialism' is taking them away from the margins of business activity and catapulting them into the centre. Bringing together key issues of gender, economic informality and urban planning in Africa, Kinyanjui demonstrates that women have become a critical factor in the making of a postcolonial city.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789221108443
2nd version of a 1994 publication.
Author : Franziska Ohnsorge
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464817545
A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies from the deep recessions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic--unless governments adopt a broad set of policies to address the challenges of widespread informality. This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the extent of informality and its implications for a durable economic recovery and for long-term development. It finds that pervasive informality is associated with significantly weaker economic outcomes--including lower government resources to combat recessions, lower per capita incomes, greater poverty, less financial development, and weaker investment and productivity.
Author : Jacques Charmes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1788972805
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category :
ISBN : 9789220313466
The 2018/19 edition analyses the gender pay gap. The report focuses on two main challenges: how to find the most useful means for measurement, and how to break down the gender pay gap in ways that best inform policy-makers and social partners of the factors that underlie it. The report also includes a review of key policy issues regarding wages and the reduction of gender pay gaps in different national circumstances.
Author : Raquel Fernández
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1513571168
This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access, and efforts to tackle entrenched social norms. These need to be set in the context of arising new trends such as digitalization, climate change, as well as shocks such as pandemics.
