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110 Catalog of Indicators Work/Labor Indicator developed: Yes Kind of indicator: On going Data source/s: Cambodia Socio-­‐Economic Survey Challenges: The large proportion of vulnerable employment remains a major concern. As the working-­‐age population expands in the coming years, the pressure on the labor market to provide quality jobs will also rise. Addressing deficits in the both the quantity and quality of jobs therefore remains a main policy challenge for Cambodia. Linked to policy: Cambodia Decent Work Programme Other comments: Vulnerable work occurs in contexts where there is excess labor, shortage of jobs and poverty, so that workers have no choice, being forced to accept jobs that do not meet legal standards and labor rights. Vulnerable work characterizes by inadequate earnings, low productivity and difficult conditions of work that undermine workers’ fundamental rights, job insecurity, no social benefits, limited legal rights and no ‘voice’ through effective representation by trade unions and similar organizations. Groups exposed to vulnerable work: young workers, industrial homeworkers: who are often denied even the most basic employment right, unpaid family workers employed across a range of businesses with no legal protection at work, recent migrants (are more likely to face extreme discrimination, dangerous working conditions and a range of other abuse), informal workers. The indicator on vulnerable employment has some limitations: 1) wage employment is not synonymous with decent work, (workers can be at economic risks despite being employees), 2) unemployed persons are not included in the indicator, 3) a worker may be included in one of two groups of vulnerable workers but not run a high economic risk.