Subsidized Household Services and Informal Employment: The Belgian Service Voucher Policy

Empowering Domestic Workers: A Critical Analysis of the Belgian Service Voucher System

Domestic cleaners lack bargaining power, which can prevent them from being in control of their work quality. The ‘service voucher system’ is expected to change the power position of domestics. This is expected because the system is formalized by the Belgian government and organized through a triangular employment relationship between the domestic, the service voucher company (the employer), and...

Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey More than 40% of the respondents in the British Household Panel Survey provide informal care at least for one year within the period 1991-2003 and carers are usually less likely to hold simultaneously a paid job. There is little evidence on the mechanism that links informal care provision and labour market...

Employment and social protectionin the informal sector

Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations

Index Introduction 1 Description of Latin American and Caribbean Informal Sector 3 Extent and composition of the informal sector 3 Determinants of informal employment 9 Determinants of wage differentials 10 Policy Issues: The causes of informal employment 16 Labor market rules and regulations and the Informal Sector 16 Macroeconomic Policies 22 Policy Issues: The consequences of informal employ...

Education and Social Policy Department Poverty, Deregulation and Employment in the Informal Sector of Mexico