... increase women's dependency on informal income sources. Unregistered employment is a particular type of informal employment: an “employment relationship not registered with the authorities when it should be registered” (Williams, 2023 , p. 107). This includes employment in which employers, who...

...Reetika Dadheech Purpose This study investigates the relationship between informal employment ( IE ) and economic growth ( EG ) across countries at different stages of development. Specifically, it examines whether IE promotes or constrains EG, and whether institutional factors such as economic...

... 12 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Informal economy Informal employment COVID-19 pandemic Bibliometric study Scopus The informal economy plays a pivotal role in the global economic system, particularly...

...Kanchan Devi; Arnob Paul Purpose Employment vulnerability is a defining characteristic of the informal labour market in Assam (a state of India), which has witnessed a steady rise in informal employment between 1999–2000 and 2011–12. Despite their substantial contribution to the state's economy...

... Khayelitsha Informal employment South Africa Cape Town Although the informal sector is a significant component of the economy that seeks to provide livelihoods to a sizeable number of workers and informal traders, this sector is consistently underestimated. Largely missing from economic policy...

... and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Although the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic appears to disproportionately affect those in informal employment, they often receive less government support than the formally employed...

... in the social characteristics between workers in formal and informal employment? And how might they be explained? According to the main assumption, a key reason why people work in undeclared employment in such countries is that they are in particularly vulnerable positions in the labour market. This paper uses...

... poverty by income generation activities. It specifically investigates the conditions of informal employment in order to understand how and to what extent they affect households’ chances of success. The study shows that substantial improvement upon the lives of poor households requires changes...