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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke +3 more
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JIET (Jurnal Ilmu Ekonomi Terapan)Objective: This study analyzes employment transitions in Indonesia's urban labor markets during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period (2020–2022).
Rizki Tri Anggara +1 more
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Informal employment in Ukraine: 2007 survey application
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Економічні науки, 2016 Informal employment became a serious challenge for the Ukrainian economy during its adjustment to market conditions. Trends of the number of workers participating in the informal sector have been rising for the last years.
Oksana Nezhyvenko
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The Urban Informal Sector in an Adjusting Economy: The Case of Pakistan [PDF]
The concept of the informal sector has gained popularity since the well-known study by International Labour Organisation [ILO] in 1972 Kenya. Since then it has become a centre stage in policy discussion regarding unemployment and poverty alleviation ...
Muhammad Arif Sargana
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Dynamics and structure of informal employment in modern Russian society
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные наукиBackground. In many cases, informal employment is forced and associated with vulnerability and discrimination of workers, who may be limited in wages, social protection, professional growth and promotion, etc.
L.N. Mordisheva
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On defining and measuring the informal sector [PDF]
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability.
Henley, Andrew +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
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Martinique’s Informal Sector [PDF]
In 2008, Martinique’s informal sector accounted for 12,400 individuals, 9.9% of the Martinique’s total employment. Youth, retirees, men, women, the unemployed, inactives, those already employed in the formal sector, and many more make up the diverse ...
Annie Motch, Gérard Forgeot
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines informal supporters' experiences and views of NDIS behaviour support practitioners, including engagement, information needed to support selection, and perceptions of practitioners' knowledge, skill, and practice. It reports data from a cross‐sectional online survey of 123 informal support providers of participants receiving
Alinka Fisher +7 more
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