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Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia

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  • Apella,Ignacio Raul
  • Zunino,Gonzalo

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The objective of this paper is to study the evolution of the incidence and profile of nonstandard workers in selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia in the past two decades. The analysis of the profile of this group of workers focuses on three key characteristics that could approximate their productivity: education level, labor income, and task content (manual/cognitive or routine/nonroutine) performed by the workers in their occupations. While in Latin America most of the countries show a stable prevalence in recent decades, in Europe and Central Asia there is not any common pattern across countries. In contrast, from the point of view of the profile of nonstable employment, there are several common characteristics among these types of workers across countries, such as improved level of education, performance of more intensive nonroutine cognitive tasks, and higher variance of labor income. The findings suggest that nonstandard workers are a heterogeneous group. The increase in the incidence of nonstandard employment and its heterogeneity generates concern about the lower level of insurance against certain risks that workers face. Therefore, a greater understanding of the trends in the prevalence and characteristics of nonstandard workers is needed to design regulation and policies oriented to these types of workers.

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  • Apella,Ignacio Raul & Zunino,Gonzalo, 2018. "Nonstandard Forms of Employment in Developing Countries : A Study for a Set of Selected Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe and Central Asia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8581, The World Bank.
  • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8581
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    1. Piotr Lewandowski & Albert Park & Simone Schotte, 2020. "The global distribution of routine and non-routine work," IBS Working Papers 06/2020, Instytut Badan Strukturalnych.
    2. Lo Bello, Salvatore & Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura & Winkler, Hernan, 2019. "From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development," IZA Discussion Papers 12259, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Cunningham,Wendy & Moroz,Harry Edmund & Muller,Noel & Solatorio,Aivin Vicquierra, 2022. "The Demand for Digital and Complementary Skills in Southeast Asia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10070, The World Bank.

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