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In this article we present a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including income–generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed with which to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal workers, identify the core needs of social protection, develop instruments and visualize the institutional mechanisms to address these needs. Further, we present the macro and micro evidence of these insecurities and discuss the institutional mechanisms for delivering social protection for the workers.

This article analyzes the informal sector in South Asia, particularly in India, as defined by new terms by the International Conference of Labor Statisticians, showing how India's informal sector is divided up as well as how the informal employees are attempting to gain a voice in negotiating better employment conditions. The article measures how many people in urban & agricultural areas are involved in informal employment & how this number varies according by definition of the term. It analyzes the effect of globalization on informal work & explains how policies are lacking in adequate analysis of these workers' productivity. E. Miller

This article analyzes the informal sector in South Asia, particularly in India, as defined by new terms by the International Conference of Labor Statisticians, showing how India's informal sector is divided up as well as how the informal employees are attempting to gain a voice in negotiating better employment conditions. The article measures how many people in urban & agricultural areas are involved in informal employment & how this number varies according by definition of the term. It analyzes the effect of globalization on informal work & explains how policies are lacking in adequate analysis of these workers' productivity. E. Miller

The COVID-19 crisis had a harsher impact on women globally, as they were disproportionately represented in sectors offering low wages, few benefits and least secure jobs. We examined the economic impact of loss of employment and incomes on workers in relatively low income households during and after the first stringent lockdown—April to June 2020—in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. We analyse employment impact using a logistic regression and impact on incomes using a Fixed Effect OLS regression. We find that the impact on women workers was greater in terms of loss of employment and income. Women had clearly not resumed work at the same rate as men after lockdown was eased. We address the specific question, 'why were women less likely to resume work after the shock of lockdown?' We found that care responsibilities did not explain later resumption of work, but the place of work did. In addition we address the question 'which segments of workers suffered greater income loss?' We analyse these questions for wage and self-employed workers and by prominent occupations in the sample. We find that while wage-employed workers resumed work later, they suffered less income loss than the self-employed. We attempt to explain this paradox. JEL Codes: J4, J46, J39, O17, R23