1887

Breaking the Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low-Paying Work

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This report adds two perspectives on informality. First, it disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to their children in the absence of adequate education, skills and social protection policy. Second, the report underscores the double burden of informality and low-paying work that a large share of workers in developing and emerging economies carry, and as such calls for policy solutions that go beyond the formalisation agenda and embrace the goal of social justice.

English

Résumé

La plupart des travailleurs des économies émergentes et en développement doivent supporter le double fardeau d’un travail informel et mal rémunéré

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