Country research desk
Labour markets, industrial development and migration
Informality, weak inspection, low wages, gendered segmentation, constrained unions, unsafe work, recruitment fees, and migration dependence reduce worker power.
This mechanism spine is a research hypothesis supplied by the package and must be tested expression by expression.
10 expressions
- Pervasive informal employment khm-structural-031
- Weak inspection and enforcement of labour standards khm-structural-032
- Low wages and insecure employment in garment and footwear production khm-structural-033
- Concentration of women in lower-paid, lower-mobility occupations khm-structural-034
- Constraints on trade-union activity and collective bargaining khm-structural-035
- Occupational-health and workplace-safety deficiencies khm-structural-036
- Precarious construction and casual day labour khm-structural-037
- Exclusion of domestic and care workers from equal labour protections khm-structural-038
- Recruitment fees, irregular migration and migrant-worker exploitation khm-structural-039
- Remittance dependence and inadequate reintegration of returning migrants khm-structural-040