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Educación, Experiencia e Ingresos en el Sector Informal en Colombia
Medicina, 2004 <h3>Introducción</h3><p>La teoría del capital humano muestra los ingresos de un trabajador como un retorno a los conocimientos adquiridos a través de los años de escolaridad y de experiencia laboral. Con los primeros trabajos de Becker (
Augusto Peñaranda Sanjuán
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Social Policy Gaps and the Welfare Burden of Informal Sector Workers in Nigeria
Pan-African Journal of Education and Social SciencesThe informal economy has consistently contributed to social and economic development through income and job creation, thereby enhancing people’s well-being. This paper examines the implications of existing policy gaps in Nigeria’s informal sector and how
Adebukola Dagunduro, Joseph Jiboku
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Savings and the informal sector
International Review of Applied Economics, 2020 ABSTRACTIn many countries the informal sector is a vital source of employment and income. But little is known about the impact of this sector on savings, which are crucial in promoting investment a...
Dobson, Stephen +2 more
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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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Book Review: Implementing Inequality: The Invisible Labor of International Development
Africa Spectrum, 2021 Aishwarya Bhuta
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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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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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Social Protection in the Informal Sector; Evidence from Ghana’s Informal Sector
Journal of Economics, Management and Trade, 2019 Ghana’s economy is dominated by a large informal sector employing a significantly higher proportion of the total workforce. Studies have shown that majority of informal sector workers work under bad working conditions, and earn low remuneration culminating into high social insecurity especially during their old age.
Donne, Muddey Komla +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Participatory approaches such as inclusive research and co‐production are recognised as best practice in disability research and service design. These approaches promote inclusion and improve the relevance, quality, and impact of research and services.
Jacinta Oakley, Em Bould, Natasha Layton
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Informal Sector Self-Employed Workers’ Old Age Pension Scheme in Retail Sector in Zimbabwe
Journal of Social Development StudiesThe high incidence of informality in Zimbabwe implies that a large proportion of the adult population does not have access to contributory pension schemes during their working lives, rendering them ineligible for old-age pensions.
Albert Makochekanwa +3 more
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