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Looking Beyond “Mow, Blow and Go”: A Case Study of Mexican Immigrant Gardeners in Los Angeles [PDF]

, 2007
: Recent research on Mexican immigrants focuses on the working conditions of farm workers, garment workers, janitors and day laborers. This coincides with successful efforts by organized labor and immigrant advocacy groups to organize these marginalized ...
Huerta, Alvaro
core   +2 more sources

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental quality and its nexus with informal economy, corruption control, energy use, and socioeconomic aspects: the perspective of emerging economies. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2022
Sultana N, Rahman MM, Khanam R, Kabir Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Growth, Fiscal Policy and the Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy [PDF]

We discuss the implications of informality on growth and fiscal policy by considering an informal sector based on low tech firms, in an open economy model of endogenous growth, where labour supply is elastic and increasing returns arise from public ...
Pedro, de Mendonça
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Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among domestic workers in Kampala's informal economy [PDF]

, 2023
Victoria Flavia Namuggala, Marjoke Oosterom   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source

Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher, Ecem Karlidag‐Dennis, Richard Hazenberg, David Conway   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embedding informality into sustainable development indices for Europe

Baltic Journal of Economics
This paper proposes a new sustainable development index incorporating informality measures for 36 European countries from 2010 to 2022. This index is estimated via a combination of national accounting, macroestimates of informality, and survey data ...
Roberto Dell’Anno, Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu, Eduard Mihai Manta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of institutional mechanisms on micropension saving among informal economy workers in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2021
Boyetey DB, Boampong O, Enu-Kwesi F.
europepmc   +1 more source

On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries [PDF]

The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial ...
Joseph E. Stiglitz, M. Shahe Emran
core  

Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the emotional experiences and processes of stigmatisation encountered by families benefiting from the Shock Plan Against Segregation and for Inclusion, Equal Opportunities and Educational Success (SP), implemented in Barcelona.
Andrea Jover, Martí Manzano, Berta Llos, Andreu Termes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source