(b) Indicators on informal sector and informal employment

(a) Operationalization of the conceptual framework of informal employment and the informal economy

(c) Measuring the linkages between poverty and informal employment

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

(e) Methods of evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

The role of the informal sector in generating employment opportunities

Despite their importance, the informal sector and informal employment are poorly covered, if at all, by official statistics.

Informal employment comprises between half and three quarters of non agricultural employment in the majority of these countries.

(e) Devising a checklist for the evaluation of data quality of surveys on the informal sector and informal employment

(a) Identification, definition and development of a core set of indicators on informal sector and informal employment in line with the importance placed on informal employment by the Task Force on Education and Gender Equality of the United Nations Millennium Project

The proportion of informal employment increases when agriculture is taken into account.

Weak employment generation had brought an increase in informal employment, and the widening gaps between skilled and unskilled workers and between the formal and informal economies had contributed to persistent and deepening inequality worldwide.

(f) Further work on the measurement of the contribution of informal sector and informal employment to GDP, including work by regional and international organizations

The vast majority of economically active people are dependent on informal employment and income generating activities.

(h) Continuation of conceptual and analytical work on measuring the links between poverty and informal employment.

This chapter looks at three main aspects of employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina workers on lay off, employment in the informal sector and discrimination in the labour market.

Women have been displaced towards open unemployment and informal employment, which demands more effort and provides less income.

The general assumption that formal sector employment is preferred over informal sector activity also applies to Indonesian workers.

Homenet Indonesia influenced the Central Bureau of Statistics in institutionalizing the collection of data on women in informal employment.

(b) The Delhi Group welcomed the initiative of ILO to collect data on employment in the informal sector and on informal employment according to the framework developed by the Seventeenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians and encouraged countries to cooperate in completing this data collection exercise

Where job growth has taken place, it has been concentrated in insecure, informal employment with low wages and few benefits.

The project addresses all aspects of these issues surrounding measurement of the informal sector and informal employment and attempts to place these new data within a framework covering the economy as a whole.

The globalized environment was marked by shrinking economies and a reduction of employment opportunities, forcing many women into the informal sector.

Laws 2639 98 and 2874 2000 Regulations regarding terms of exemption from Collective Labour Agreements (Territorial Employment Pacts) Promotion of part time employment and restrictions regarding working overtime Establishment of informal forms of employment (more specifically, temporary agency work by law 2956 2001).

On the other hand, there are countless micro enterprises, mostly in the informal sector, which provide employment to poor people, especially women.

Since 1990, urban unemployment and informal employment have increased, and the number of those employed in the formal economy has been decreasing.

Note the category Others corresponds to all of the workers producing for personal use and informal employees (without an employment record book).

(c) Definition and measurement of subgroups of the various types of informal jobs in relation to status of employment and development of methods and survey questions to reduce classification errors in respect of employment situations lying on the borderline of status of employment categories

Like many other cities in the developing world, Sana'a has a large informal sector which is estimated to constitute 32 of nongovernmental employment.

In these countries, informal sector enterprises are an important provider of employment and income opportunities not only in rural but also in urban areas.

(c) The Delhi Group welcomed the development of a framework at the international level including informal employment as an indicator with respect to monitoring progress relating to Millennium Development Goal 3 encompassing equality and employment of women

One may infer that such informal arrangements survive in real world employment relationships because they reinforce our heartfelt feelings of good will toward each other.

The relation between women's poverty and their traditional employment in the informal sector was being studied in the context of the MDGs, particularly poverty reduction.

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

Informal informal consultations

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.

In short, unemployed persons willing to engage in some sort of self employment do not only form the informal sector it is also owned by formally employed persons.

It has also put more emphasis on ensuring that employment and decent work goals are incorporated in both the formal and informal sectors and in poverty reduction strategies.

Governments and local authorities could assist in creating employment opportunities and in enterprise formation in the vicinity of informal settlements through appropriate land development policies and infrastructure investments.

(a) The Delhi Group noted that there had been significant developments in the operationalization of definitions and the conceptual framework of the informal sector and informal employment surveys since the last meeting of the Group held from 2 to 4 February 2004 in New Delhi.

With the informal sector continuing to play a major role in emerging economies, women often have access to only unreliable and transitory employment that offers casual and irregular wages.

They express concern over the availability and quality of employment, particularly with regard to the informal economy, where most jobs offer few prospects, hazardous conditions and no social protection.

The Committee welcomes the Programme to Eradicate Child Labour (PETI), however it is deeply concerned at the high rates of informal employment of children, in particular in domestic labour.

A gender and youth sensitive enabling legislative framework could support the creation of employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in the informal sector, with a particular focus on these two groups.