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Short-term labour transitions and informality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America [PDF]
Journal for Labour Market Research, 2023 Latin America was one of the regions hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper analyses, from a dynamic and comparative perspective, labour transitions triggered by the pandemic in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica ...
Roxana Maurizio +3 more
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The Dynamics of Labour Informality in Brazil, 2003-2019
Global Labour Journal, 2021 This article examines the evolution of labour informality in Brazil between 2003 and 2019, a period marked by strong political, economic and social inflections.
Marcelo Manzano +2 more
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Classes of Labour in India: A Review Essay
Global Labour Journal, 2021 From the very beginning of my writing on the regime of informality I have rejected the notion of a dichotomy between formal and informal labour relations.
Jan Breman
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Informal sector on labour market [PDF]
Revista Română de Statistică, 2011 The informal sector is omnipresent, existing in the market economies and centrally planned economies in both the developing and developed ones. The sector achieved results that run the economy and engage workers who work, earn income and consume ...
Silvia PISICĂ
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Click farm platforms : An updating of informal work in Brazil and Colombia
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2022 The article analyses work on click farm platforms in Brazil and Colombia. It argues that work on these platforms updates and renews the historical informality of work in Latin America.
Rafael Grohmann +5 more
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The Thinker, 2023 It may be surprising that African countries stand out (with some exceptions) for giving domestic workers basic coverage under the labour law. Many countries worldwide have failed to meet this most basic requirement, and labour law protections are the ...
Amy Tekie
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Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality
Journal of Development Studies, 2022 Several episodes of market-oriented reforms in developing countries have been accompanied by a significant rise in work outside of the formal economy. This paper investigates whether the impact of trade on formal employment is mediated by the strength of
Rita Almeida, Lourenço S. Paz, J. Poole
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objective We aimed to estimate the association between informal employment and mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by comparing welfare state regimes.Design Ecological study using time-series cross-sectional analysis of countries ...
Fernando G Benavides +4 more
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Regional Labour Informality in Colombia and a Proposal for a Differential Minimum Wage
Journal of Development Studies, 2020 The very high level of informal labour in Colombia is a symptom of the labour market is not functioning properly. Moreover, this undesirable outcome is highly heterogeneous across the country: the differences in the labour informality rate between cities
Luis E. Arango, Luz A. Flórez
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Uncovering commercial activity in informal cities
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Knowledge of the spatial organization of economic activity within a city is a key to policy concerns. However, in developing cities with high levels of informality, this information is often unavailable.
Daniel Straulino +4 more
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