Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America -- Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal -- Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda -- Chapter...

This book utilizes the School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS) of the ILO to discuss what shapes an individual worker’s decision to participate in unionization and how her working condition is affected by that.. There remains a disconnect as far as our understanding of the relationship between...

We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...