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Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children who are removed from their birth families during childhood—termed care‐experienced—can be at risk for lower educational attainment and poorer school experiences, often linked to deprivation and behavioural factors. However, research often uses aggregated measures that obscure the complexities of care (e.g.
Emily Lowthian +9 more
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Tanzania's informal economy. The micro-politics of street vending
, 2019 An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city’s thriving informal economy. The market places and street corners of Dar es Salaam are home to a thriving informal economy of street vendors selling ...
Malefakis, Alexis
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Informal economy and migrant worker.
Migraciones, 2016 The present article is based on the analysis of the information obtained by an empirical estimation conducted among 1103 non-European immigrants, representative of the fifteen more relevant nationalities in Spain.
Concha Carrasco Carpio
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya +2 more
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Compliance With Protective Behavioral Recommendations in the Outbreak of COVID-19 Among People Working in the Urban-Based Informal Economy in Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2021 Zewude B +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the factors associated with persistent absenteeism (an absence rate of 10% or higher) and authorised and unauthorised absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland. Using linked administrative data, the analysis focuses on secondary school stages S1–S6 in three academic years.
Silvia Behrens +6 more
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Extortion and Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy
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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Informal and underground economy [PDF]
There is a widespread feeling that a substantial and increasing share of activities take place outside the official economy. This holds, in particular, for developing and transition but also for high income economies.
Bruno Frey, Friedrich Schneider
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Health Services Use and Health Outcomes among Informal Economy Workers Compared with Formal Economy Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Naicker N +4 more
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Addressing racialised awarding gap in higher education: Insights from personal tutors
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Situated within a wider cross‐institutional research project, this article provides an in‐depth case study of one higher education (HE) institution, focusing on how personal tutors make sense of racialised degree awarding disparities for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, how they perceive their responsibilities, the challenges and ...
Benjamin Ajibade +3 more
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