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Unveiling the intellectual structure of informality: Insights from the socioeconomic literature. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn the socioeconomic sphere, the concept of informality has been used to address issues pertaining to economic dynamics, institutions, work, poverty, settlements, the use of space, development, and sustainability, among others.
Nelson Alfonso Gómez-Cruz +2 more
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Informal employment, population health, and welfare policies: A global empirical analysis between 2011-2021. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDespite informal employment being the most common type of employment globally, the empirical link between informality and health is underexplored.
Amanda E Aronsson, Indra de Soysa
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Why do Firms Operate Informally? Insights from a Systematic Literature Review
Innovar: Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales, 2022 This paper investigates factors that motivate entrepreneurs to completely operate within informality and the drivers of formal companies to underreport revenues.
Florencia Verónica Pedroni +2 more
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Societies, 2022 This paper develops a baseline and definition for informal disaster diplomacy in order to fill in an identified gap in the existing research. The process adopted is a review of the concept of informality, the application of informality to diplomacy, and ...
Patrizia I. Duda, Ilan Kelman
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Informalidad, productividad y flexibilidad laboral
Revista de Análisis Económico y Financiero, 2020 This document studies the relationship of labor informality with productivity and labor flexibility using data by country. It is shown that labor flexibility and productivity are negatively related to labor informality, which suggests that when labor ...
Nikita Cespedes Reynaga
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Spatial integration of urban informality in Jakarta
ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2022 Urban informality is an everyday life phenomenon in Jakarta but has not been extensively discussed, especially in relation to spatial design practice. This is important because formality and informality are not entirely separate but rather interconnected
Ruth Dea Juwita +1 more
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Is informality a barrier to economic growth in Uganda? Empirical analysis
Development Studies Research, 2021 We apply autoregressive distributed lag modeling approach to investigate the short- and long-run relationship between economic growth and informality in Uganda. We use annual time series data, covering the period from 1991 to 2017.
Stephen Esaku
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Ghana’s informal economic sector in the face of a pandemic
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2021 Africa has not been spared the socioeconomic effects of Covid-19. But with a different socioeconomic setup where informality takes the center stage, the effects of the pandemic in Africa is like no other continent. The neo-liberal approach to informality
Philipa Birago Akuoko +2 more
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Informal Economy and Income Distribution in Ecuador During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Revista Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2022 This paper seeks to analyze the evolution of labor informality in Ecuador during the coronavirus. The analysis uses microdata from household surveys for 2019 and 2020 to contrast the evolution of informality rate and income. A wage decomposition
Hector Alberto Botello Peñaloza +1 more
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Urban Informality: Its Genesis and Future beyond Stigma and Abolition
AMJAU, African and Mediterranean Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2021 More than often informality as a concept connotes, in the common perception, with negative and unofficial ways through which formality is bypassed.
Safiya El Ghmari, Adil Zabadi
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