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Hopeful Workers, Marginal Jobs: LA’s Off-The-Books Labor Force
By: Brent Haydamack and Daniel Flaming, Economic Roundtable, with Pascale Joassart
Underwritten by the City of Los Angeles' LA Economy Project
December 2005, 67 pagesSection Headings:
Executive Summary
Introduction
What is “informal economy”?
Why should we expect to find informal employment in Los Angeles?
- What evidence points to economic desperation as a driver of informal employment?
The gap between jobs reported by employers and people who report working
How many workers are employed in LA’s informal economy
- What is a low-range estimate of the number of county workers in the informal economy?
- What is a high-range estimate of the number of county workers in the informal economy?
- What is a mid-range estimate of the number of county workers in the informal economy in 2000?
- What is a mid-range estimate of the number of county workers in the informal economy in 2004?
- How many workers in the City of Los Angeles hold informal jobs?
What is the cost of informal employment to the public social safety net?
What role does gender play in the informal?
Why do immigrants participate in the informal economy?
How many informal workers are undocumented immigrants?
- Undocumented workers broken out by City planning area
Industries that employ the informal labor force
- In which industries do undocumented workers find jobs?
- Which industries show up with unreported jobs?
- How many unreported jobs exist and in what industries
Best estimate of informal employment in each industry
Conclusions
Next step – learning more about the progress, conditions and needs of immigrant workers
Data appendix
- Description of tables
- Table A, Estimated undocumented workers by industry, Los Angeles City and County, 2000
- Table B, Indicators of informal employment in Los Angeles County industries
- Table C, Indicators of informal employment in City of Los Angeles industries
- Table D, Integrated industry estimates of informal employment in Los Angeles City and County, 2000
Endnotes