These subcategories include unpaid informal caregiving, volunteering; unpaid domestic work; unpaid subsistence activities, unpaid family work, and unpaid work in paid workplaces. Thus, learning mobility, poverty, and well-being among the informally employed are likely. Gorana Krstić and Peter Sanfey analyze informal-sector employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) using panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Studies. They derive four main conclusions. First, there is significant labor market mobility in B&H, with education being an important factor in explaining movements from informal- to formal-sector jobs. Secondly, informal jobs are much more likely to suffer from poverty than formally employed people. Thirdly, earnings inequality is more pronounced in the informal sector than elsewhere. Fourthly, the informally employed report lower life satisfaction levels than those in almost all other groups in the labor market. Overall, they conclude that, while the informal sector may represent a vital coping strategy for many, the formal sector provides much better prospects for prosperity and well-being.

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Interesting information. I'm studying this topic in Cuba. You mention social and cultural issues that are also present in Latin America and The Caribbean countries.

In Cuba, the study “National Survey on Gender Equality” (ENIG-2016) defines the unpaid work as household work and care work, which it’s realizing without remuneration at home or other homes and community, also volunteer work on institutions, organizations, brotherhood, among others. This work shows a quantitative analysis of the average week hours that men and women devote from different typologies of unpaid work. Likewise, exposes the existence of a feminization and masculinization of those tasks that don’t require payment. (See: http://www.onei.gob.cu/node/14271)