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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALBANIAN INFORMAL ECONOMY [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of the paper is to analyze the informal economy in Albania. The measurement of informal economy may be realized through direct and indirect methods.
Frederik ÇUÇLLARI   +2 more
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Marketing Opportunities at the Intersection of Formal and Informal Economies

open access: yesMarketing Management Journal, 2005
The informal economy is significant in dollar terms in all nations of the world, but particularly in developing countries. Here, informal economy is used in relation to legal activities generating income unregulated by societal institutions which are not
LINDA C. UELTSCHY, ALBERTO CASTILLO
doaj   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Extortion and Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy [PDF]

open access: yes
Informal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra legal activities employs majority of the workforce in the developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal manufacturing and service sectors is facilitated through extortion by agents of ...
Mandal, Biswajit, Marjit, Sugata
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Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Hours Worked by Primary Carers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary caregivers constitute a major unpaid workforce in Australia. The aim of this study was to determine the sociodemographic factors that are associated with carer workloads. Multinomial logistic regression modelling was applied to the nation‐wide Australian Government survey.
Andrew J. Hamilton
wiley   +1 more source

Labor regulations and the informal economy [PDF]

open access: yes
The informal economy, which evades labor regulations, provides employment for much of the labor force in developing countries. The author explores how labor regulations and imperfections in informal capital markets affect income inequality and the speed ...
Loayza, Norman V.
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal economy and the state

open access: yes, 2016
Since the late 1980s, the concept of the informal economy has increasingly occupied the attention not only of social scientists, but also of politicians, policymakers and, not the least, journalists.
Slavnic, Zoran,
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