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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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Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey [PDF]
IMF Working Papers, 2010 This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modeling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by informality.
Nicoletta Batini +3 more
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Informal Production and Labour Market Segmentation [PDF]
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011 An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. Two cases are distinguished, with and without labour market segmentation, for which different patterns of formal/informal supply obtain.
Bennett, J
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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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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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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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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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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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Social Sciences, 2022 Informal employment has long been a feature of Arab economies and as such, better understanding of the political participation of informal workers is important, especially given their involvement in social uprisings, such as during the Arab Spring in ...
Walid Merouani, Rana Jawad
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