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Extending social protection to informal economy workers: Lessons from the Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIbIH)

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  • Alexandre Kolev
  • Justina La
  • Thomas Manfredi

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This paper exploits the information available in the OECD Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIBIH) to shed light on several elements that could help inform national strategies for the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. It provides an assessment of current social protection coverage of informal workers throughout a large sample of developing and emerging economies and proposes a statistical framework to examine country-specific data, upon which a strategy for extending social protection to informal workers could be articulated. While the paper does not intend to provide detailed country-level recommendations, it highlights a number of important findings and policy directions as regards the way to extend non-contributory and contributory schemes to informal workers. Ce document de travail se fonde sur les informations tirées des Indicateurs clés de l’OCDE sur l'informalité en fonction des individus et leurs ménages (KIIbIH) pour mettre en lumière un certain nombre d’éléments nécessaires à la mise en place de stratégies pour l’extension de la protection sociale aux travailleurs de l’économie informelle. Il dresse un état des lieux de la couverture actuelle des travailleurs informels en matière de protection sociale à partir d’un large échantillon d’économies en développement et émergentes, et propose un cadre statistique pour exploiter les données spécifiques aux pays et à partir duquel pourrait s’articuler une stratégie d’extension de la protection sociale aux travailleurs informels. Bien que ce document de travail n’ait pas pour but de fournir des recommandations de politique publiques détaillées par pays, il met en avant une série de résultats et d’orientations en matière de politique publique visant l’extension des systèmes contributifs et non-contributifs aux travailleurs informels.

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  • Alexandre Kolev & Justina La & Thomas Manfredi, 2023. "Extending social protection to informal economy workers: Lessons from the Key Indicators of Informality based on Individuals and their Household (KIIbIH)," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 350, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:350-en
    DOI: 10.1787/ca19539d-en
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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J46 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Informal Labor Market

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