Smith PM, Saunders R, Lifshen M, Black O, Lay M, et al. |
Spain (includes European countries and the USA) |
Systematic review and descriptive study |
Migrant workers |
Not exactly; it describes the development of measurement in occupational health, safety, and vulnerability for work accidents for the population of migrants from the formal or informal sector of the economy. |
Specific for its application in work accidents for migrant workers. |
Hernández P, Zetina A, Tapia M, et al. |
Mexico, Mexico City |
Descriptive |
426 female sellers |
It does not refer to the concept of employment vulnerability; it mentions female workers in the informal economy, such as female street vendors in four districts of Mexico City. |
It does not define. |
Ahonen EQ, Benavides FG, Benach J |
Spain (includes European countries and the USA) |
Review |
Agriculture, construction, daily jobs, taxi drivers, other |
Not exactly; the development of measurement of occupational health, safety, and vulnerability in the immigrant population is described. |
Non-specific. |
Sánchez AIM, Bertolozzi MR |
Brazil |
Systematic review |
Health users, patients, and their families |
This document reviews the concept of vulnerability to contribute to the support of health care in Brazilian cities. |
Confusing. |
Cross C |
Argentina |
Qualitative |
Women who participated in a construction program. |
It refers to the concept of employment vulnerability applied to persons with low employability, particularly in working women who participated in a social construction program in which recycling plants were built in a landfill in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
Broad, social vulnerability in persons with low employability |
Tasso AT, Zurita C |
Argentina |
Qualitative |
Workers who move places for agricultural activities |
It is located in the concept of social vulnerability and decent work to value the conditions of migrant workers in agricultural tasks by seasons, jobs that are recognized as “swallow” jobs, since workers travel from Santiago del Estero to different states of Argentina. |
Broad, social vulnerability in persons with agricultural jobs called “swallow” – decent work. |
González LM, Ortecho M, Molinatti F |
Argentina |
Review |
Documents and small neighboring areas of Argentina |
It summarizes the notion of social vulnerability in the Latin America, but it locates and defines its analysis in the concept of social mobility in small neighboring areas. There is no direct reference to the working population. |
Broad, social vulnerability in small neighboring areas of Argentina |
Goldberg A |
Argentina |
Literature review and quantitative |
Documents |
Description of contexts of social vulnerability accompanied by health risk situations of illegal Bolivian migrants with tuberculosis who also work in non-formal textile workshops in Buenos Aires. |
Broad, social vulnerability in workers |
Palacios-Pérez AT, Sierra-Torres CH |
Colombia – Popayán |
Quantitative descriptive, research, and audiometry |
186 hawkers of Popayán |
The terms informal economy, informal sector, hawkers, and precarious employment by the economic model were mentioned; the concept of employment vulnerability is not mentioned. Topics related to prevalence and risk factors associated with communicative changes are also addressed. |
Non-specific, it is not mentioned directly. |
United Nations Development Programme (PNUD) |
New York |
Quantitative |
Poor persons, workers, women, entire communities of the different countries in the continent |
It covers a holistic approach to vulnerability, which includes resilience. The AVEO approach is assumed although it is not mentioned directly, since it talks about giving assets and capabilities to the vulnerable population in social and labor terms, to prevent, face, and recover from unfavorable situations, and to overcome the concept of poverty. It is questioned who are those vulnerable, to whom they are vulnerable, and why the populations are vulnerable, differentiating and considering employment as a part of social vulnerability. |
Broad, social vulnerability in the general population; includes the working population. |
Andrade MI, Laporta P |
Argentina |
Quantitative |
Agricultural producers |
Although the title announces the concept of social vulnerability of the agricultural producers of an Argentine region, this concept is not clearly defined in it; however, there is a permanent reference to the concept of social theory of risk and little employment vulnerability. |
Broad, social vulnerability in agricultural producers; non-specific for labor. |
Moyano DE, Guevara RC, Lizana JL |
Chile – Maule region |
Mixed |
258 hawkers of the Maule region in Chile |
It does not mention the concept of employment vulnerability directly; it refers to the term informal economy workers, which include self-employed, those engaged in subsistence activities, and within these it focuses on street vendors. |
Non-specific – informal economy workers – self-employed – subsistence activities. |
Bachiller S |
Argentina |
Qualitative – ethnographic |
Informal waste pickers |
Informal pickers are referred to as subsistence workers and it is described that an analysis of the notion of alienation will be made in the analysis of employment precariousness that affects the pickers. Pickers in the waste dump of Comodoro Rivadavia of Patagonia in Argentina. |
Confusing – it refers to subsistence workers and precarious employment. |
Vargas MC, Aparicio AT, Alanís JC |
Mexico |
Review |
Documents that show the topic in question |
Meanings of the concepts of socioeconomic vulnerability, environmental justice, and spatial justice, in their relations with social risks and disasters. It does not refer to specific populations. The concept of socioeconomic vulnerability is administered as a key to understanding the causes of disasters. |
Broad – socioeconomic vulnerability, environmental justice, space justice. |
Ospina JM, Manrique FG, Ariza NE |
Colombia – Boyacá |
Quantitative – cross-sectional, descriptive |
1,410 potato growers from the central state of Boyacá |
Health, environment, and work in vulnerable populations: potato growers in central Boyacá. In relation to the concept of employment vulnerability, the article mentions that the informal sector is a vulnerable population; in general workers have low paid employment, long hours of work, and mediocre and unregulated working conditions, conditions that generate bad life conditions. |
Broad – vulnerable populations. |
Salas MM, Oliveira O |
Mexico |
Mixed |
Young persons and adolescents |
It studies how the crisis has particularly aggravated the employment vulnerability of adolescent workers, from the more frequent processes of informalization, precarization, and lack of labor protection. |
Confusing – vulnerability, precarious employment with subsistence work, unprotected work, etc. |
Pamplona JB |
Brazil |
Quantitative |
Street vendors of São Paulo |
It does not define the concept of vulnerability in the text. It mentions as an important point the decrease in street vending in São Paulo, which went from 133,000 in 2004 to 100,000 in 2009, and this is considered as a consequence of an improvement in employment. It is described as the sale of illegal products and that can cause problems of mobility and illegality. It does not define a concept of vulnerability; it mentions it with informal workers. |
Non-specific – informal economy workers |
Roa JCG, García-Suaza A, Rodríguez-Acosta M |
Colombia |
Quantitative |
Home Survey Information GEIH-DANE 2010 |
It does not define the concept of vulnerability; it analyzes the process of implementing the concept of informality in the analysis of the Colombian labor market, centered on the workplace beyond the size of the place of work. These conditions show the questioning of public policies that have occurred for the administration of labor informality in Colombia. |
Non-specific – informality. |
Giatti L, Barreto SM, César CC |
Brazil |
Quantitative |
National survey data – a sample of men aged between 15 and 64 years |
It presents the concept of precarious employment; it does not mention employment vulnerability. However, an analysis of unprotected employment in the informal and health sector for workers with temporary contracts in Brazil between 1998 and 2003 for one of the eight metropolitan regions of Brazil is presented. It is described lack of social security, unemployment, and unprotected employment (heterogeneous groups). |
Non-specific – informality – precarious employment. |
Massi MF |
Argentina |
Quantitative |
Mixed – microdata from research |
Dimensions of precarious employment in Argentina: a broad set of working conditions is mentioned here; it is described that it is created linked to the instability in hiring and exclusion from the labor market. It explains that there are no ‘precarious’ and ‘not precarious’ jobs; there are smaller or greater degrees of precariousness in the different segments of the production structure, since in general, all have characteristics of precariousness. |
Non-specific – it addresses precarious employment for workers in different sectors. |
Gómez PI, Castillo AI, Basquez SA, Castro OA, Lara EH |
Colombia – Cartagena |
Quantitative |
584 informal stationary sellers of the city market (Bazurto) |
It mentions that the sector of informal employment brings together a vulnerable population, which is poorly remunerated and with long and strenuous hours, and in general, the precarious working conditions affect the living and health conditions of workers2020. Gómez-Palencia IP, Castillo-Avila IY, Banquez-Salas AP, Castro-Ortega AJ., Basquez SA., Lara-Escalante HR. Condiciones de trabajo y salud de vendedores informales estacionarios del mercado de Bazurto, en Cartagena. Rev Salud Publica. 2012 [cited 2015 Oct 4];14(3):448-59. Available from: http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/27063/1/24779-169086-1-PB.pdf
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Confusing – it mixes employment vulnerability and precarious employment indistinctly. |
Garzon-Duque MO, Gómez-Arias RD, Rodriguez-Ospina FL |
Colombia – Medellín |
Quantitative |
422 informal street workers on the streets and sidewalks of the Medelin center |
It defines as vulnerable working population those who are at social, occupational, and community risk; it alludes to the regional decent work plan, to subsistence jobs within the informal economy. It defines that they are sellers who work during the day to eat at night. |
Specific – but not defined for sellers. |
Sotelo-Suárez NR, Arcentáles JLQ, Montilla CPM, López-Sánchez PA |
Colombia – Bogotá |
Quantitative |
3,936 working women in informal economy in different areas |
It does not define the concept. It mentions conditions of precariousness of women with low education level, gains below the legal minimum wage, with long working hours, scarce time to carry out activities of leisure and free time; it mentions that 75% of the women are heads of households. |
Non-specific – it refers to the concept of precarious employment to define employment vulnerability of the women under study. |
Ballesteros LV, Arango YLL, Urrego YMC |
Colombia – Rural Area of Medelin |
Quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive |
100 informal pickers of five neighborhoods of Medelin in 2008 |
It designates workers as informal environmental pickers; however, informal picker, vulnerable worker, or subsistence worker is not clearly defined. However, it describes that their informal conditions expose them to working conditions that affect their health and that of their families. Their health and work conditions are precarious. The biological, ergonomic, and social risks to which they are exposed and lack of social security constitute their precariousness. Non-unionized workers are a large majority in relation to unionized workers, more women than men, mostly single, and with low education level. |
Non-specific – it refers to the concept of precarious employment but not defined, which mentions precarious employment for environmental pickers, both unionized and non-unionized. It insinuates more than its precariousness, the employment vulnerability of non-unionized workers. |
Carvalho Junior LCS, Ramos EMC, Toledo AC, Ceccato ADF, Macchione M, Braga ALF, et al. |
Brazil – West of the State of São Paulo |
Quantitative – longitudinal descriptive |
With 44 cane cutters, from whom data were collected in two moments in 2010 |
Workers in conditions of precarious employment in rural areas such as migrants from poor regions of Brazil, being on average 25 years old, with five years or less of education. The work they perform requires from them great physical effort, and the payment occurs by the quantity cut; they are exposed to polluted air and the sun, make too much physical effort, and do not consume water, situations that affect their physical and mental health. In general, with good perception of their state of physical and mental health. |
Non-specific – it mentions precarious working conditions but does not define the concept for these cane cutters, nor the type of contract they have with the company where they work. |
Teixeira JRB, Boery EN, Casotti CA, Araújo TMd, Pereira R, Ribeiro ÍJS, et al. |
Brazil – Jequié, Bahia State |
Quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive |
Made with 400 motorcycle taxi drivers, published in 2015 |
It wanted to explore their perception of quality of life and see if the control over their own work had repercussions on this perception. It mentions that motorcycle taxi is a labor activity arising from informality, in which the drivers undergo diverse conditions to increase their gains, although they imply malaise, damages, or health problems. It mentions the precariousness of the work of motorcycle taxi drivers. |
Confusing – motorcycle taxi drivers are referred to as informal workers, subject to the violation of their health conditions, the precariousness of this employment, but it is not clearly defined. |
Cavalcante-Nóbrega LP, Mello AF, Maciel MR, Cividanes GC, Fossaluza V, Mari JJ, et al. |
Brazil – São Paulo |
Quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive |
With 79 mothers of one sample per convenience |
Mothers of 7 to 14 year old boys who work in the streets of São Paulo. Mothers live in a context of poverty (up to 6 persons in a house), of domestic violence, with mental health problems that affect the children. Only half of the mothers were paid for work, with a regular perception of their quality of life and an average of 4 children. |
Non-specific – It does not mention at any point that the work of the children in the street is precarious, vulnerable, informal, or of subsistence. |
Assunção AÁ, Silva LS |
Brazil – metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. |
Quantitative, cross-sectional |
With 1,607 workers |
It explores the prevalence of mental disorders in bus drivers and ticket collectors to see if the traffic conditions or bus conditions were associated with the disorders. It was observed that urban collective transportation workers are frequently victims of precarious work conditions, which trigger health problems; however, no description is given in the article of what are the reasons, for the specific case, for precarious employment and being vulnerable to psychic suffering. |
Non-specific – it mentions that workers are victims of precarious working conditions, but it does not define their concept, being them contract workers. |