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Most people in industrialized economies work in formal, contracted, regulated employment, but in most developing countries the majority work informally, in unregulated work, producing and selling goods on a small scale. The nature of this work makes reliable data hard to find. Unemployment is a major source of inequality and deprivation, particularly throughout most of the non-industrial world, where there is little support for the unemployed. Unemployment levels have risen dramatically since the onset of the recession in 2007, but global data on this change is not yet available. Work provides more than remuneration. It may, for example, bestow status. Gender differences in the level of unemployment often reflect power inequalities – most strikingly in the Middle East.

Differences in livelihoods, remuneration, unemployment, and underemployment create considerable inequalities.

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