1. Introduction : understanding rural wage employment in developing countries / Carlos Oya and Nicola Pontara -- 2. Rural labour markets and agricultural wage employment in semi- arid Africa : evidence from Senegal and Mauritania / Carlos Oya -- 3. Lifting the blinkers : a new view of power,...

Over recent decades, there has been the substantial rise in the proportion of people engaged in what is termed informal employment, generating a broad trend toward "informalization" of labor market conditions in developing countries, even when economic growth is proceeding. We consider the...