Focuses on country systems for regulating low-wage work.

Covers data from 1990 to 1997.

Based on data obtained from a database on the informal sector created by the ILO's Bureau of Statistics in 1998 and updated in 2001.

Analyses which types of labour market flexibility and security combinations - "flexicurity" - are advantageous and who benefits.

Highlights the institutional, structural and political factors which account for Italy's high level and distinctive pattern of self- employment in comparison to other industrial countries, including persistent economic dualism, labour market rigidities, a favourable regulatory framework, the...

Presents the various working-time concepts developed at the ILO Bureau of Statistics, with a view to the eventual standardization of measurement. Lists ILO Conventions dealing with working-time issues.

Presents an overview of the informal economy and analyses strategies adopted by workers organizations to expand representation amongst informal sector workers. Based on a study of clothing, construction, street trading and taxi sectors conducted in 2001.

Working paper on the impact of survey questionnaire design, sex of interviewer and sex-proxy status of sample respondent (research method) on reported levels of woman worker labour force participation in developing countries. Comprises a case study of methodological Experiment (Methods Test) in...