Is Informal Sector Employment Marginal to Formal Sector Growth?

Employment and social protectionin the informal sector

Handicraft Sector: The Comforting Sector of Employment Review

The employment is a requisite if one wants to have a normal life, decent meals and a place to stay; it socializes the people and gives them some survival and esteem feeling in the society. Besides that Employment boosts personal well fear, morale integrity and self confidence. In India economy is diverse where employees are employed in agriculture, handicraft, a wide range of modern industries,...

Modernizing the informal sector

Th e multiplicity of policies proposed to support the informal sector refl ects the lack of a common defi nition. Although they may produce positive eff ects, these are limited and fail to constitute a comprehensive strategic approach. Th e diff erent interpretations in the absence of a common defi nition as well as the strategies emerging from them are reviewed. Th e identifi cation of informa...

Prospects for service sector employment growth in non-metropolitan America.

"This paper focuses on how successfully non-metropolitan areas [in the United States] can compete for service-producing industry. Data on wage and salary employment for the 1969-84 period are used to assess how well non-metropolitan areas have been keeping up with metropolitan areas in expanding service jobs. Changes in patterns of employment growth in non-metropolitan and metropolitan servic...

Extending voluntary health insurance to the informal sector: experiences and expectations of the informal sector in Kenya

Background: Kenya has made a policy decision to use contributory health insurance as one of its key pre-payment health financing mechanisms. The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is the main health insurer in Kenya. While the NHIF has hitherto focused its efforts on providing health insurance coverage to individuals in the formal sector, it has recently broadened its focus to include indi...