Informal work
Informal work describes different forms of (self) employment or economic activity that deviate from the legally regulated normal form and the standards prevailing in the respective economic system .
Informal work is often not recorded in official statistics and is also difficult to measure reliably. The ILO definition of 1993 defines the informal sector of an economy by stating that there is no separation of companies and private households in these economic activities.
The delimitation of informal work is also made more difficult in theory because formal employment is used as the benchmark for determining informal work. The nature and degree of formalization of employment are not only different in every economy ; the boundaries of what is formal and informal are also shifting along the time axis in any economic order.
The generic term “informal work” includes such different phenomena as: illegal work , subsistence work , precarious work , etc.
Single receipts
- ↑ 4.9.1.1 Definition and characteristics ( memento of the original dated August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Elmar Altvater , Birgit Mahnkopf: Globalization of Insecurity. Work in the shade, dirty money, and informal politics. Westphalian steam boat: 1st edition Münster 2002. ISBN 3-89691-513-4
- Cathy A. Rakowski, (ed.): Contrapunto. The Informal Sector Debate in Latin America. Albany (State University of New York Press) 1994.
Web links
- Final report of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag: Globalization of the world economy - challenges and answers. December 15, 1999 (Federal Print 14/2350)