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The Search and Matching Equilibrium in an Economy with an Informal Sector: A Positive Analysis of Labour Market Policies

Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2015
This paper contributes to the theoretical analysis of the informal sector through the search and matching framework. Building upon the work of Albrecht, Navarro and Vroman (2009), where the informal sector consists of unregulated selfemployment, I ...
Luz Adriana Flórez
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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The effect of fiscal policy on the size of the informal sector in Nigeria

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2011
This paper adapts a dynamic real business cycle model to examine the effect of fiscal policy on the relative size of the informal sector in Nigeria. The motivation for this paper is to provide an economic intuition on how fiscal policy has contributed to
Offiong H. Solomon
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Mandatory health insurance for the informal sector in Tanzania-has it worked anywhere! [PDF]

Front Health Serv, 2023
Mori AT.
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THE INFORMAL SECTOR AND PERIPHERAL CAPITALISM: THE CASE OF TANZANIA [PDF]

, 1975
Manfred Bienefeld
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Labour income inequality and the informal sector in Colombian cities

Cuadernos de Economía, 2017
Labour markets in developing countries are crucial to determine income inequality. In this paper, we use a panel data approach to study the effect of the informal sector on labour income inequality for thirteen cities in Colombia from 2002-2015.
John Ariza, Gabriel Montes-Rojas
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Implicit Models and Policy Recommendations: Policy towards the ‘Informal Sector’ in Kenya [PDF]

, 1978
Paul Mosley
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Graduates' conceptions of meaningful work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how meaningful work is conceptualised by recent graduates. Whilst the imperative to maximise economic returns from higher education (HE) endures in HE policy, less attention is given to how meaningful work is and its relationship to values and identities.
Michael Tomlinson, Manuel Souto‐Otero
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Problems of Working Women in the Rural Informal Sector of Punjab (Pakistan)

Lahore Journal of Economics
The informal sector plays a significant role in Pakistan’s economy as well as in other developing countries. The role of the informal sector in solving the unemployment problem of Third World countries has become the focus of a conceptual and empirical ...
Karamat Ali, Abdul Hamid
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