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Employment Relationships and Organizing Strategies in the Informal Construction Sector
African Studies Quarterly, 2010 The expansion of self-employment, casual labor and outsourcing in the construction sector around the world and the growing involvement of intermediaries has led to an increasing complexity of employment relationships. The paper discusses the implications
Jill Wells, Arthur Jason
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Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar [PDF]
, 2016 Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries.
Nordman, Christophe Jalil +2 more
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Circular Economy Disclosure and ESG Performance: Signal, Substance, or Symbol?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study examines whether circular economy (CE) disclosures lead to tangible environmental improvements reflected in ESG performance or primarily serve reputational objectives linked to greenwashing. It investigates how disclosures on energy efficiency, resource reduction, water efficiency, and emission reduction influence ESG performance and
Chiara Leggerini +3 more
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Foreign Capital Inflow, Skilled-Unskilled Wage Gap, and Welfare in the Presence of the Informal Sector [PDF]
This paper attempts to analyse the impact of trade liberalisation on the skilled- unskilled wage gap and the level of welfare of developing countries, which are generally characterised by large “informal” labour markets.
Kausik Gupta, Tania Basu
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The literature addresses decarbonisation technologies and stakeholder engagement separately, without considering partnership practices, accountability frameworks and environmental performance measurement for environmentally Sustainable Development Goals (e‐SDGs) in shipping companies.
Assunta Di Vaio +3 more
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From formal- to informal-sector employment: examining the Chinese presence in Zambia
Review of African Political Economy, 2010 This paper analyses China's recent engagement with Zambia, examining especially Chinese hiring practices, methods of business organisation and the labour conditions maintained by Chinese-operated construction and mining firms. Moving beyond existing analyses which remain focused solely on Chinese trade, aid and investment, this study begins to explore ...
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The Effects of Labour Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector [PDF]
In this paper, we build an equilibrium search and matching model of an economy with an informal sector. Our model extends Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) by allowing for ex ante worker heterogeneity with respect to formal-sector productivity.
James Albrecht +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though prior studies have explored the effects of firms' social media marketing activities on customer engagement, the dynamics characterizing this association in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets remain tenuous, exposing a critical gap. Addressing this gap, we develop and test a model assessing (a) the effects of firms' sustainable social ...
Md. Al Amin +4 more
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Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa [PDF]
Before the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been using the same methodology to derive the informal sector employment throughout the years, focusing on the enterprise registration ...
Derek Yu, Hassan Essop
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability efforts increasingly emphasize Scope 3 emissions due to their substantial share of total corporate carbon footprints. However, reporting these emissions remains inconsistent, limiting transparency and comparability across firms.
Nuri C. Onat +4 more
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