Documents et rapports
-
Labor Market Scarring in a Developing Economy : Stigma versus Lost Human Capital from Plant Closings in Mexico (anglais)
This paper estimates the magnitude of labor market scarring in a developing economy, a setting that has been understudied by the labor scarring literature dominated by advanced economies. The paper assesses...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11116 Date du document: 7 mai 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arias Vazquez, Francisco Javier,Lederman, Daniel
-
Unpacking Informality : Expanding Retirement Savings Coverage for Informal Workers in Indonesia (anglais)
This policy note presents insights synthesized from the 2022 Indonesia’s retirement savings among informal workers survey. It aims to unpack informality in Indonesia as it relates to retirement savings...
Type de document: Note d'orientation Numéro du rapport: 193614 Date du document: 19 septembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Meidina, Ilsa,Putri, Tanya Adi
-
Does Climbing the Jobs Ladder Promote Poverty Reduction ? (anglais)
This paper explores trends in and the potential determinants of the types of jobs held by workers, and their relationship with poverty reduction, in an unbalanced panel of 89 countries over the past 30...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10856 Date du document: 18 juillet 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Choi,Yunji,Gronert, Mario,Honorati, Maddalena,Merfeld,Joshua D.,Newhouse, David
-
Making Pension Savings Easy and Efficient for Informal Sector Workers - Learning from Kenya’s Haba Haba Pilot (anglais)
Haba Haba, which means “bit by bit” in Swahili, is a voluntary pension scheme in Kenya for workers in informal employment and promises to be a scheme through which they can slowly but surely save for their...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 190258 Date du document: 15 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
-
Informal Employment in Malaysia: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Reform (anglais)
This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 187866 Date du document: 22 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghorpade,Yashodhan,Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti,Binti Jasmin,Alyssa Farha,Cheng,Natalie Fang Ling,Yi,Soonhwa
-
What Policy Reforms Should Malaysia Undertake to Support the Informally Employed? (anglais)
This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 187866 Date du document: 21 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti,Binti Jasmin,Alyssa Farha,Ghorpade,Yashodhan
-
What Are the Characteristics of Informal Employment in Malaysia? (anglais)
This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 187866 Date du document: 21 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti,Binti Jasmin,Alyssa Farha,Ghorpade,Yashodhan
-
Informal Employment and Experiences of Vulnerability (anglais)
This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 187866 Date du document: 21 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti,Binti Jasmin,Alyssa Farha,Ghorpade,Yashodhan
-
Who Are the Informally Employed in Malaysia? (anglais)
This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 187866 Date du document: 21 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti,Binti Jasmin,Alyssa Farha,Ghorpade,Yashodhan
-
Urban Informality in Sub-Saharan Africa : Profiling Workers and Firms in an Urban Context (anglais)
This paper describes the state of informal sector work in urban Sub-Saharan Africa, using household surveys from 26 countries representing 61 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa and firm surveys...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10703 Date du document: 14 février 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cunningham, Wendy,Newhouse, David,Ricaldi, Federica,Tchuisseu Seuyong, Feraud,Viollaz, Mariana,Edochie, Ifeanyi Nzegwu
-
Indonesia's Informal Economy: Measurement, Evidence, and a Research Agenda (anglais)
Indonesia has made remarkable economic progress since the Asian Financial Crisis. To sustain its growth and achieve high-income status by 2045, it needs to address the long-standing challenge of informality...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10608 Date du document: 15 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ablaza,Christine Marie Jimenez,Alladi,Vinayak,Pape,Utz Johann
-
Herder-Related Violence, Agricultural Work, and the Informal Sector as a Safety Net (anglais)
Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled—mostly agricultural—communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and resources, in part, due to a changing climate. This...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10607 Date du document: 15 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bloem,Jeffrey Richard,Damon,Amy,Francis,David C.,Mitchell,Harrison
-
Understanding the (Un)met Saving Needs of Poor Urban Liberians in the Informal Sector (anglais)
Gisela is among the large and diverse group of informal sector workers in urban Liberia who lack social protection coverage, have little interaction with formal financial institutions, and depend on informal...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 185415 Date du document: 20 octobre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jain,Himanshi,Cunningham,Wendy
-
Kenya - Second Kenya Informal Settlements Improvement Project : Abbreviated Resettlement Action Plan Report for Manyatta A, Manyatta B, Nyawita and Kibuye Settlements (anglais)
The development objective of the Second Phase of the Informal Settlements Improvement Project for Kenya is to enhance access to basic services and tenure security of residents in participating urban informal...
Type de document: Plan de réinstallation Numéro du rapport: SFG7991 Date du document: 1 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Borrowing Agency
-
Designing and evaluating a Hybrid Means Test model using survey data in Armenia - Notes and documentation (anglais)
This note assesses the convenience and implications of different options of social assistance targeting in Armenia, in particular a Hybrid Proxy Means Test (HMT) method to improve the targeting of the...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 183460 Date du document: 28 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
-
Understanding Urban Informality in Iraq - Findings from the Informal Sector Enterprise Survey (anglais)
In Iraq, like many countries around the world, the informal sector is a major contributor to employment and business activity. The Iraq Labor Force Survey (LFS) of 2021 estimated that more than half of...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 183008 Date du document: 31 mai 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
-
Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment ? Experimental Evidence from Mexico (anglais)
Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper experimentally tests whether a six-months wage incentive can increase formal employment among...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10234 Date du document: 17 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abel,Martin,Carranza,Eliana,Geronimo,Kimberly Jean,Ortega Hesles,Maria Elena
-
Informal Emissions (anglais)
Environmental regulations and their enforcement play a critical role in reducing emissions and their devastating effects on humanity and the environment. However, many developing countries have large informal...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10158 Date du document: 31 août 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burgi,Constantin Rudolf Salomo,Hovhannisyan,Shoghik,Joshi,Santosh Ram,Ahmad Famm Alkhuzam
-
Labor Informality and Market Segmentation in Senegal (anglais)
Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase formalization across Sub-Saharan Africa, where nine out of ten workers are informal. This paper...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10129 Date du document: 26 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos,Vazquez,Emmanuel Jose
-
Labor Market Transitions in Egypt Post-Arab Spring (anglais)
This paper examines the Arab Republic of Egypt’s labor market transition dynamics post–Arab Spring based on the two most recent rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey conducted in 2012 and 2018...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10126 Date du document: 21 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Deng,Jingyuan,Elmallakh,Nelly Youssef Louis William,Flabbi,Luca,Gatti,Roberta V.