Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bacchetta, Marc.

Publication

Geneva : International Labour Organization : World Trade Organization, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Ernst, Ekkehard (Economist)
• Bustamante, Juana P.
• International Labour Organization
• World Trade Organization

Description

187 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Informal sector (Economics) > Developing countries
• Labor market > Developing countries
• Globalization > Economic aspects

Note

• "A joint study of the International Labour Organization and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-161).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9789287036919
• 9287036918

LCCN

^^2010369279

OCLC

• 471475298
• SCSB-11600057

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library