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Title The job ladder : transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries / edited by Gary S. Fields, T.H. Gindling, Kunal Sen, Michael Danquah, Simone Schotte
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 437 pages ): illustrations (some color)
Series WIDER studies in development economics
Studies in development economics.
Contents The job ladder / Gary S. Fields, T.H. Gindling, Kunal Sen, Michael Danquah, and Simone Schotte -- Informality and work status / Gary S. Fields -- Transforming informal work and livelihoods in China / Carl Lin, Linxiang Ye, and Wei Zhang -- Moving up or down the job ladder in India : examining informality-formality transitions / Rajesh Raj Natarajan, Simone Schotte, and Kunal Sen -- Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy : long-term evidence from Indonesia / Mayang Rizky, Daniel Suryadarma, and Asep Suryahadi -- Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Enrique Alaniz, T.H. Gindling, Catherine Mata, and Diego Rojas -- Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America / Roxana Maurizio and Ana Paula Monsalvo -- Self-employment and labour market dynamics of men and women in El Salvador and Nicaragua / Enrique Alaniz, Alma Espino, and T.H. Gindling -- Informal work in urban Mexico : characteristics, dynamics, and workers' preferences / Robert Duval-Hernández -- Dynamics of off-farm self-employment in the West African Sahel / Sènakpon Fidèle Ange Dedehouanou and Didier Yélognissè Alia -- Informal-formal workers' transition in Nigeria : a livelihood analysis / Abiodun O. Folawewo and Olusegun A. Orija -- Informal-formal transitions in work status in sub-Saharan Africa : a comparative perspective / Michael Danquah, Simone Schotte, and Kunal Sen -- The evolution of vulnerable employment in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia / Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny -- How to transform informal work and livelihoods? : lessons learnt and policy options / Gary S. Fields, T.H. Gindling, Kunal Sen, Michael Danquah, and Simone Schotte -- Appendix A. Work status definition and operationalization -- Appendix B. Job ladder -- Appendix C. Work status dynamics
Summary "Using a range of countries from the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the dynamics of worker transitions between formal and heterogeneous, informal work. The range of country studies in the book (covering Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa) allow us to present a comparative perspective across developing countries. Each country study provides a nuanced view of informality, dividing workers into six work status groups: formal wage-employees, upper-tier informal wage-employees, lower-tier informal wage-employees, formal self-employed, upper-tier informal self-employed, and lower-tier informal self-employed. Based on this common conceptual framework, the country studies examine the distribution of workers between each of these work status groups. Using panel data, the country studies document transition patterns across different formality and work status groups. The panel data analysed in each country study gives a basis for making statements about labour market transitions that are not warranted when using comparable cross sections. In addition to measuring the distribution of workers and transitions between work status groups, each country study also examines individual-level and household-level characteristics associated with workers in each work status. Using these characteristics, each country study constructs a 'job ladder' that ranks each work status. The country studies then examine the characteristics of workers that are associated with transitions up (and down) the job ladder"--Publisher's description
Notes Open access version available
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 23, 2024)
Subject Informal sector (Economics) -- Developing countries
Employees -- Developing countries
Career changes -- Developing countries
Career changes
Employees
Informal sector (Economics)
Economics.
Industry.
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
Author Fields, Gary S., editor. editor.
Gindling, T. H., editor. editor.
Sen, Kunal, 1961- editor. editor.
Danquah, Michael, editor.
Schotte, Simone, editor.
ISBN 9780192692900
0192692909
9780191959387
0191959383