Formal Sector

Informal Sector

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Formal sector employment

(iv) The informal sector and its integration into the formal economy

(i) Informal sector statistics

(i) Informal sector statistics

Informal sector

One is whether work takes place in the public, the formal private or the informal sector.

Items for information informal sector statistics

Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.

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

(b) Importance of support from the official sector.

Report of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics

Report of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics

Improving conditions in the informal sector and for the working poor

Improving employment and working conditions in the informal sector

The large number of women in the informal sector

There is the modern sector, there is the informal sector and the traditional sector.

Now, it is not just this informal sector.

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

On the other hand, the income and quality of work of people engaged in the informal sector are in general considerably lower than those of workers in the formal sector.

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

Second, female workers in the informal sector need to be identified.

A particular consideration would be regulation of the informal sector.

(a) Strengthening the risk mitigation products offered by official sector agencies.

The initiative for the Brady Plan did not come from the official sector at all.

The private sector has not experienced sufficient growth, and in the public sector, the State has been forced to reduce the number of State institutions, thereby reducing public sector employment, with the result that workers have had to seek employment in the informal sector. Consequently, 70 out of every 100 economically active women work in the informal sector in conditions of underemployment.

90. A second trend is the emergence of an intermediate sector between the formal sector of large enterprises and the increasingly crowded informal sector.

While women working in the formal sector were covered by the social security system, the majority of women worked in the informal sector and in domestic service and lacked social security coverage.

On the other hand, young and unqualified labour is pushed into the informal sector.

All the groups in formal employment receive social security benefits.

(e) Recognition of the role of the informal sector and the need to promote its integration in the economy

The international community should look at women apos s activities in the informal sector.

The average age of those employed in the formal sector has considerably increased, from age 36.6 in 1991 to 40 in 2000 (World Bank data, November 2002), which means that only limited numbers of the young workforce have got jobs in the formal sector, so a majority is employed in the informal sector.

11.14 While these figures reflect the formal sector, the average monthly salary in the informal sector varies quite considerably according to industry as well as between rural and urban settings.

The informal sector plays a significant role in African economies since it offers the means for many people to cope with the severe lack of employment opportunities in the public and formal private sectors.

Indeed, 92 of the labor force is employed in the informal sector.

From depositors point of view, participating in the informal sector is a rational choice.

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

Women employees in the informal sector do not have a statutory right to maternity leave.

14. In dealing with the informal sector, certain methodological issues require consideration.

It has also been observed that the absorptive capacities of the informal sector is low in remote areas.

(r) Giving greater attention to the implications of women apos s involvement in the informal sector

As our regulatory efforts in the formal sector mature, we can expect to see illicit activity increasingly displaced into informal systems.