Working People and Access to Social Protection

Francie Lund

Chapter 10 in Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context, 2006, pp 217-233 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The informal economy is growing worldwide in the proportion of the workforce who work in it, in the number of informal enterprises, and in the economic contribution of the informal sector to the GDP of many countries (ILO 2002). There is an increase in the numbers of self-employed people (own-account operators, and those who employ others); growing numbers of people work on a contractualized or outsourced basis; fewer people work with secure and lasting contracts; and many formal workers are losing work-related social benefits such as access to health insurance and pension provision. This applies to countries worldwide, though ‘non-standard employment’ is the term usually used to refer to countries in the North and ‘informal employment’ to those in the South.

Keywords: Social Protection; International Labour Organization; Domestic Worker; Informal Economy; Informal Worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230625280_10

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