The effects of the global economic crisis on women in the informal economy
Research findings from Wiego and the Inclusive Cities partners
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12551997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoe Elena Horn (0000-0002-3248-9774, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 263-276 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1355-2074 • E-ISSN: 1364-9221 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13552074.2010.491339 |
| OpenAlex | W2038188016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 5 |
Findings from a recent study on the impact of the economic crisis on informal workers in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa reveal that transmission of the crisis to the informal economy is hitting poor women hard. Women constitute the majority of the informal workforce in most developing countries, and predominate its poorest and most vulnerable ranks. Evidence from four informal sectors suggests that income and employment trends during the crisis – decreasing demand and wages aggravated by rising competition – are strongest in the poorest-paying and lowest barrier-to-entry informal sectors and sub-sectors where women are concentrated. The crisis is compounding women's paid and unpaid informal work burden. As a result, the relative socio-economic vulnerability of poor working women and their families is deteriorating during the crisis
Business · Competition (biology · Demographic economics · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Informal sector · Labour economics · Latin Americans · Political science · Poverty · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · Workforce · Working poor · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Taxation and Compliance Studies
Gender and (International) Political Economy
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Effort Years and Underperformance
Cities through a “gender lens”
Diversity and Informal Economy
The Gender Impact of Social Protection Policies
Socio-economic constraints in re-entering the labour market during Covid-19 and the resilience of female informal workers living in urban informal settlements
Exploring the “feminisation of poverty” in relation to women’s work and home-based enterprise in slums of the Global South
Not Just Recycling the Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic and the livelihood of a vulnerable population
Trashing Solidarity
The Defeminizing Reversal
Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment
Female entrepreneurs and poverty reduction
El papel de la economía informal en los proyectos agroecológicos durante el Covid-19
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |