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Tackling informal employment in Asia: building post-COV19 solutions to precariousness through case-study based evidence on Bhutan, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

Projektbeschreibung

Forschung und Schulung zum Thema informelle Beschäftigung in Asien

Informelle Beschäftigung und allgemeine Arbeitsmarktunsicherheit sind inzwischen weltweit als schwerwiegende Probleme anerkannt. Schätzungen der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) zufolge sind etwa 2 Milliarden Menschen (61 % der weltweit Beschäftigten) in der informellen Wirtschaft tätig. Infolge von COVID-19 werden diese Zahlen für 2020 wahrscheinlich noch steigen. Trotz allem scheinen die Möglichkeiten begrenzt, das Problem der informellen Beschäftigung und der Vulnerabilität anzugehen, besonders in einigen Regionen der Erde, wo es zum Großteil an entsprechenden Fachleuten vor Ort mangelt. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt LABOUR wurde ins Leben gerufen, um dem entgegen zu wirken und Fachleute für informelle und prekäre Beschäftigung in Südostasien auszubilden, wo dieses Phänomen besonders massiv auftritt.

Ziel

According to the last WESO report, there are over 1.4bn workers in vulnerable jobs worldwide, with numbers expected to rise in 2020 due to COVID-19. Several attempts have been made at both domestic and international levels to address these concerns. This includes efforts through the Sustainable Development Goals process, which includes a specific statistical indicator to measure informal employment (8.3.1) the formulation of SDG8 (decent work) and SDG9 (sustainable industrialization). Across countries and world regions, the degree to which SDGs have been used to address youth issues and inform national policies varies significantly. Indeed, in spite of the fact that the great majority of states have formally committed to addressing the SDGs, including those related to insecure employment, there is little evidence to indicate that developing regions currently have the capacity to systematically study the problems if informal employment and vulnerability in ways that facilitate the development and implementation of concrete viable solutions. This is due, in our view, to two major challenges. First, although a number of approaches that have been used inside the EU, there has been little, if any, attempt to adapt the existing framework elsewhere. Second, no systematic review of anti-precariousness policy has been attempted beyond the EU region. LABOUR is a research and training programme designed to address the above-mentioned shortfalls of research and development approaches with particular attention to a region where this is particularly worrying concern. Informal employment in Asia is estimated to account for 68.2% of the active population. By gathering a team of 14 participants that includes academic and non-academic partners working on labour insecurity, we aim not only at producing specialists on the topic and on the region but also at proposing concrete mitigation measures that can be taken into account by decision-makers and development organisations.

Koordinator

TALLINN UNIVERSITY
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€ 220 800,00
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Eesti Eesti Põhja-Eesti
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Gesamtkosten
€ 220 800,00

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