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Earnings and Employment Dynamics for Africans in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Panel Study of KwaZulu-Natal [PDF]

, 2005
[Excerpt] The labour market is central in determining individual and household well-being in South Africa. Therefore, an understanding of earnings and employment dynamics is a key policy issue. However, the absence of panel data has constrained empirical
Cichello, Paul L, Fields, Gary S, Leibbrandt, Murray   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

How AI Shapes the Future Landscape of Sustainable Building Design With Climate Change Challenges?

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review examines how artificial intelligence reshapes sustainable building design faced with climate change challenges. The authors synthesize existing studies to demonstrate AI's transformative potential across design lifecycle phases from climate‐aware form generation to performance optimization.
Pengyuan Shen, Xiaoni Gao, Shuai Lu, Yi Zhang, Xing Zheng, Matthaios Santamouris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of Formal and Informal Employment of women on their Quality of Life: a study in Tehran [PDF]

پژوهش‌های سلامت‌محور, 2018
Background & Objectives: Women have a basic role in ensuring the health of future generations and their employment forms an important part of their life.
Abolghasem Pourreza , Marzye Rostaminya, Touraj Harati Khalilabad, Sara Maleki, Seyed Abdolreza Mosavi   +4 more
doaj  

The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

The Search and Matching Equilibrium in an Economy with an Informal Sector: A Positive Analysis of Labour Market Policies

Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2015
This paper contributes to the theoretical analysis of the informal sector through the search and matching framework. Building upon the work of Albrecht, Navarro and Vroman (2009), where the informal sector consists of unregulated selfemployment, I ...
Luz Adriana Flórez
doaj   +1 more source

Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets [PDF]

It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation.
Günther, Isabel, Launov, Andrey
core   +6 more sources

18 The Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Output, Assets, and Employment [PDF]

, 2008
AbstractThis study documents four key facts about informal economic activities: (1) the size of the informal sector varies greatly across nations; (2) this size is strongly correlated with economic development, the tax burden, and the rule of law; (3) the informal sector emphasizes small‐scale, self‐financed, and unskilled labour- intensive economic ...
Sangeeta Pratap, Erwan Quintin
openaire   +1 more source

Does ESG Matter for Unlisted Companies in the Agri‐Food Industry? Evidence From Japan's Unlisted Agri‐Food Companies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Employment: Features in the North and South of Russia

Арктика и Север
The spread of informal employment is relevant for the labor market of the Russian Federation as a whole, and for its regions. The relevance of the research problem is associated with the lack of comparative data on the informal sector of the economy of ...
Marina A. Terentyeva
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Informal Employment as a Threat to Social Security in the Labor Market in Ukraine within an Economic Transformation [PDF]

Problemi Ekonomiki, 2020
The specific features of informal employment, which is one of the main threats to social security in the labor market, in the context of transformational changes in the economic environment have been identified, and current trends in informal employment ...
Bondarevska Kseniia V.
doaj   +1 more source