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“Stay at home (if you can)”: informal employment and COVID-19 in Mexico
Revista Finanzas y Política Económica, 2023 This paper explores the relationship between residential confinement to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, seen as a public policy, and how it affects the informal labor sector, as well as the responseof individuals to the pandemic in the states ...
Carlos Emmanuel Saldaña Villanueva +2 more
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Methodological and Theoretical Considerations regarding Informality on the Labor Market [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2018 Since the 1970s when the term "informality" has penetrated into economic theory by designating everything that is not subject to the legal regulations of a state until today, the concept of informality has evolved from "simple business activities carried
Cristian MARINESCU +1 more
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Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis
Journal of Development Studies, 2019 Across the Global South, the realities of urban informality are changing, with implications for how we understand this phenomenon across economic, spatial, and political domains.
N. Banks, M. Lombard, D. Mitlin
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Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities and the Struggle for Water Justice in California
Water Alternatives, 2021 This article maps a meshwork of formal and informal elements of places called Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities(DUCs)to understand the role of informality in producing unjust accessto safe drinking waterin California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Jonathan K. London +12 more
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Informality as a multifactor approach: evidence from mototaxi drivers in Colombia
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2023 This study explores the diverse range of activities undertaken by informal workers and the ways in which these activities can differ in terms of their degree of informality.
Norida Vanegas-Chinchilla
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German Law Journal, 2023 The German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) has for decades used informality to establish, build, and protect its authority. Yet, as the political landscape has shifted in recent years, in particular since the end of the Merkel-era Grand Coalition ...
Silvia Steininger
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Firms, Informality, and Development: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model where heterogeneous firms can exploit two margins of informality: (i) not register their business, the extensive margin; and (ii) hire workers “off the books,” the intensive margin.
Gabriel Ulyssea
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Sustainability, 2020 Informal settlements are the most common form of urbanization on the planet, accounting for one-third of the total urban form. It is expected that by the mid twenty-first century, up to three billion people will live in informal urban environments ...
Jota Samper, J. Shelby, Dean Behary
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Urban Design Dimension Of Informality At The Perimeter Of Brawijaya University And UIN Maliki Malang
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 Informality is one of the commonly emerged issues in urban design which rarely explored, especially informality within university’s perimeter. Brawijaya as one of the biggest and oldest University in Malang over time has boosted the development of ...
Tyaghita Cesarin Binar +2 more
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Labor informality during the pandemic: Crisis and recovery in Mexico
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2022 Informality is a structural feature of the Mexican labor market of great quantitative and qualitative importance. However, largely due to the confinement of the population, millions of informal jobs were lost in the first months of the pandemic, leading
Alfredo Hualde Alfaro +1 more
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