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

open access: yesپژوهش‌های 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   +4 more
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The Search and Matching Equilibrium in an Economy with an Informal Sector: A Positive Analysis of Labour Market Policies

open access: yesDesarrollo 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
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets [PDF]

open access: yes
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
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The dual labour market theory and the informal sector in South Africa

open access: yesActa Commercii, 2006
Purpose of the paper: The purpose of this paper is to revisit the dual labour market theory as far as the informal sector in South Africa is concerned.
M. D. Uys, P. F. Blaauw
doaj   +1 more source

Informality and the Education Factor in Indonesian Labor

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Applied Economics, 2020
Informal sector plays a major role in Indonesia. In 2018, this sector generates 57,9 percent employment of the total workforce. Moreover, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), one of the biggest pockets of informal workers account 64.19 million business ...
Axellina Muara Setyanti
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Informal Employment as a Threat to Social Security in the Labor Market in Ukraine within an Economic Transformation [PDF]

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

open access: yes, 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

Informal Employment: Features in the North and South of Russia

open access: yesАрктика 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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Modelling the informal sector and energy consumption in Ghana

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022
The International Monetary Fund (2017) defines the informal sector as unrecorded economic activities that possess monetary value and contribute to tax revenue and gross domestic product.
John Bosco Dramani   +2 more
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Constraints to growth in informal sector activities and formalisation: A case study of Ghanaian slums

open access: yesThe Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 2018
Background: Globally, people often migrate from rural to urban areas in search of employment. Lack of adequate employment opportunities in cities forced individuals to engage in slum informal economic activities out of necessity.
Darma Mahadea, Luther-King Junior Zogli
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