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
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 t...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/246711536777440870/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 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30426 |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|