The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established...

Introduction -- Concepts, definitions and sub-classifications of informal sector and informal employment -- Measurement objectives and methods of data collection -- Household surveys on informal sector employment and other types of informal employment -- Establishment surveys and censuses --...

Labour market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment contracts, and pension and other social protection policies, are instrumental for improving the well-being of workers and their families as well as societies. Yet in many countries, these institutions have...