Term:
Informal employment
Definition:

Informal employment comprises the total number of informal jobs, whether carried out in formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or households, during a given reference period. It includes the following types of jobs: (a) own-account workers employed in their own informal sector enterprises; (b) employers employed in their own informal sector enterprises; (c) contributing family workers, irrespective of whether they work in formal or informal sector enterprises; (d) members of informal producers’ cooperatives; (e) employees holding informal jobs in formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers employed by households; where they exist, employees holding formal jobs in informal sector enterprises should be excluded from informal employment;(f) own-account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively for own final use by their household, if considered employed.

Domain:
Labour
Source:
ILO
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