Writer: Farah Al-Shami
Informal employment constitutes 63.9% of total employment in Arab States, which is higher than both the developing and emerging countries’ average of 59.5% and the world average of 61.2%. More than 75% of this share work in the informal sector. The share of informal employment in Arab countries with relatively large populations, like Egypt, is typically higher than the region’s average. On the other hand, countries with smaller populations stand below this level but their national averages are substantially exceeded by the share of informal employment in rural areas and urban informal settlements, as well as in certain sectors like agriculture and construction, for example. In its broadest sense, informal work intersects with other forms of precarious work, such as care work and migrant and domestic work, and is thus a substantially gendered space. As informal workers also overlap with marginalized communities, non-working age groups, people with disabilities, migration and displacement, among others, informal work becomes a hotbed of intersecting social vulnerabilities.
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