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| dc.title | Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations |
| dc.contributor.author | Freije, Samuel |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Sustainable Development Department |
| dc.coverage | The Caribbean |
| dc.coverage | South America |
| dc.coverage | Central America |
| dc.date.available | 2011-11-10T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2002-07-01T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost every form of social protection and low-productivity/low-wage employment. This report summarizes the characteristics of the informal sector and provides policy recommendations to tackle it. Section 2 illustrates the size and trend of the informal sector in the region. It also describes the employment and wage characteristics of informal workers. Sections 3 and 4 review the causes and consequences of informality. Finally, section five concludes and provides policy recommendations. |
| dc.format.extent | 66 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008407 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Informal-Employment-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean-Causes-Consequences-and-Policy-Recommendations.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Labor Policy |
| dc.subject | Workforce and Employment |
| dc.subject | Training and Development |
| dc.subject | Poverty |
| dc.subject.keywords | informal employment, informal sector, labor market rules and regulations and the informal sector |
| dc.type | Policy Briefs |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Policy Briefs |