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  • About The Jobs Group
  • Partnerships
    • Jobs Umbrella Multi-donor Trust Fund
      • Lending
        • Support to Operations
        • Indirect Jobs Measurement
      • Measurement
      • Partnerships
        • Jobs After Covid Innovation Challenge
      • Pilots
        • Mexico
        • South Africa
        • Cote d’Ivoire
        • Bangladesh
        • Mozambique
        • Paraguay
        • Tanzania
        • Tunisia
        • Zambia
    • Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)
    • Jobs Diagnostics and Solutions Practitioners Network
    • Rome Dialogues
  • Learn
    • Toolkits
      • M&E for Jobs Operations
      • Jobs in Value Chains Survey Toolkit
      • Jobs Diagnostics Online Tool
    • Publications
    • Jobs and Development Conference
    • World Development Report 2013: Jobs
    • World Development Report 2019
    • Green Jobs
    • Just Transition
    • Public Employment Services
  • Blogs
    • Jobs and Structural Change Series
    • Jobs and COVID-19 Series
    • Jobs Lending Blog Series
    • World Bank Jobs and Development Blog

Daily Archives: August 28, 2018

Defining Informality vs Mitigating its Negative Effects

NewsBy Galina KalvatchevaAugust 28, 2018Leave a comment

There are more informal workers than formal workers across the globe, and yet there remains confusion as to what makes workers or firms informal and how to measure the extent of it. Informal work and informal economic activities imply large efficiency and welfare losses, in terms of low productivity, low earnings, sub-standard working conditions, and…

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