Globalization and informal jobs in developing countries / prepared by Marc Bacchetta, Ekkehard Ernst, Juana P. Bustamante.

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Bacchetta, Marc

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Globalization and informality in times of scrisis -- Labour markets in open developing economies -- Key facts on globalization, trade and informal employment in developing countries -- Improving social equity and efficiency by battling informality -- Varieties of informality -- Three views of the informal economy -- A unifying model: multi-segmented labour markets -- Definitions: making informality concepts operational -- The crux of measurement -- Openness to trade and informality -- How does trade opening affect informal employment and wages? -- What does the evidence tell us? -- Impact of informality on trade and growth -- How does informality shape macroeconomic performance? -- Informality and macroeconomic performance: empirical evidence -- Economic resilience: dynamics of informality -- Transmission mechanisms of shocks in informal labour markets -- Informality and business cycles -- Capital flows and informality -- Globalization and informal employment: an empirical assessment -- Setting the stage -- The impact of globalization on informal employment -- Does informal employment lock countries into trade patterns? -- Robust policies for an uncertain worid -- Formalization of firms -- Supporting transitions from informal jobs to formal employment -- Employment-friendly trade policies -- Coherence between trade and labour market policy.

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Summary: Economic growth has not led to a corresponding improvement in working conditions and living standards for many workers. In developing countries, job creation has largely taken place in the informal economy, where around 60 per cent of workers are employed. Most of the workers in the informal economy have limited job security, low incomes and no social protection, with limited opportunities to benefit from globalization. This study focuses on the relationship between trade and the growth of the informal economy in developing countries. Based on existing academic literature, complemented with new empirical research by the ILO and the WTO, the study discusses how trade reform affects different aspects of the informal economy. It also examines how high rates of informal employment diminish the scope for developing countries to translate trade openness into sustainable long-term growth. The report analyzes how well-designed trade and decent-work friendly policies can complement each other so as to promote sustainable development and growing prosperity in developing countries.

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Economic growth has not led to a corresponding improvement in working conditions and living standards for many workers. In developing countries, job creation has largely taken place in the informal economy, where around 60 per cent of workers are employed. Most of the workers in the informal economy have limited job security, low incomes and no social protection, with limited opportunities to benefit from globalization. This study focuses on the relationship between trade and the growth of the informal economy in developing countries. Based on existing academic literature, complemented with new empirical research by the ILO and the WTO, the study discusses how trade reform affects different aspects of the informal economy. It also examines how high rates of informal employment diminish the scope for developing countries to translate trade openness into sustainable long-term growth. The report analyzes how well-designed trade and decent-work friendly policies can complement each other so as to promote sustainable development and growing prosperity in developing countries.

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