Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues
Part 1 — who counts as a worker, how many people work, in what status, and how the structure of work is changing.
In this lesson you will
- Define a worker, the workforce and the labour force, and calculate the worker-population ratio
- Interpret differences in participation between men and women and between rural and urban areas
- Classify workers by status and describe how work is distributed across sectors
- Explain jobless growth, casualisation and the informalisation of the workforce