Factors like self-employment, informal employment and people joining or dropping out of the labor pool can account for some of the differences.
It encompasses legal and formal employment as well as illegal and informal employment.
Bumvertising is a form of informal employment in which a homeless person is paid to display advertising.
Instead, China's economic growth increased its use of informal employment, which has affected women disproportionately.
Similar to China, Korean women mostly had the opportunity for informal employment, which deprives women of financial stability and safe working environments.
Formal employment is more reliable than informal employment.
Some, like Teafortwo, supplemented this with informal employment.
There is also growing informal employment, partly the result - however paradoxical this may sound - of rigid labour legislation.
Although they potentially create jobs, they are also the sector in which we find the most informal employment and the greatest precarity.
The relative growth of informal employment was more rapid within the organized rather than the unorganized sector.