{"id":34778,"date":"2021-12-06T16:08:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/?post_type=news&p=34778"},"modified":"2021-12-10T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T08:53:55","slug":"iraq-what-is-the-state-of-the-informal-economy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/en\/2021\/12\/06\/iraq-what-is-the-state-of-the-informal-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq : What is the state of the informal economy?"},"content":"\n \n \n \nDespite the lack of recent consolidated data, it emerges a strong growth of the Iraqi labor force between 2011 and 2017, which goes from 8 M to 10.5 M and an employment rate of the population of working age which remains among the weakest of the countries of the Middle East (49% in federal Iraq and 40% in Iraqi Kurdistan).\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nThe unemployment rate is also high at 16% nationwide. The state remains the main provider of jobs with 39% of civil servants out of the country’s total jobs (without including employees of public \/ parastatal enterprises which represent 10 to 20% of jobs).\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nThe private sector thus contributes only 40 to 50% of the country’s jobs (formal and informal private sector). Young people and women are particularly poorly integrated into the local labor market.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nThe youth unemployment rate is 36% and the employment rate of working-age women is only 20% (unemployment rate: 27%) (data – 2017-18).\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nThe informal economy remains predominant in Iraq with 95% of the companies surveyed saying they are not officially registered.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nAs a result, private employment remains overwhelmingly informal with only 14% of employees declaring to have signed an employment contract, 37% having an oral agreement with the employer and 49% having no direct agreement with their employer. .\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nAs a result, only 4% of private sector employees have employer-paid health insurance and 8% paid vacation (data – 2020)\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nTo access the study: https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/beirut\/publications\/WCMS_830086\/lang–en\/index.htm\n\n \n \n\n","author":15,"featured_media":34781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5766,5751,5756,6400,6401,6402,5786,6374],"location":[6069],"class_list":["post-34778","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-economic-analysis","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-international-labor-office-ilo","tag-labor","tag-middle-east","tag-unemployment","tag-united-nations","location-irak-en"],"short_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/31CfQKQ","have_related_news":"","chapo":"

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