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Working at the margins of global production networks: local labour control regimes and rural-based labourers in South India

Class Dynamics of Development, 2016
This article analyses why informal labourers working ‘at the margins’ of global production networks lack ‘structural’ and ‘associational’ power. It does so in order to better understand potential changes in their material and political conditions, and as
J. Pattenden
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Product Quality, Informality, and Child Labour [PDF]

This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors.
Eugenia Fotoniata, Thomas Moutos
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Taxing the Informal Economy: The Current State of Knowledge and Agendas for Future Research [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reviews the literature on taxation of the informal economy, taking stock of key debates and drawing attention to recent innovations. Conventionally, the debate on whether to tax has frequently focused on the limited revenue potential, high ...
Abor J., Alm J., Anuradha Joshi, Assobo A. B., Baross P., Bird R., Bird R., Bird R., Bird R., Bodin J.-P., Boesen N., Casanegra de Jantscher M., Chen M., Christopher Heady, Coolidge J., Cross J., Daly J., de Mel S., de Soto H., Everest-Phillips M., Fjeldstad O.-H., Fjeldstad O.-H., Foreign Investment Advisory Service, Garcia-Bolivar O., Gordon R., Hart K., Hategeka E., Heredia B., Hickey S., Howell J., International Monetary Fund (IMF), James S., Jaramillo M., Jibao S., Jibao S., Kamunyori S., Kanbur R., Kanbur R., Keen M., Kenyon T., Kloeden D., Korsun G., Levi M., Lindell I., Lipsky M., Loeprick J., McCarten W., McKerchar M., Meagher K., Ngoi G. K., Pimhidzai O., Portes A., Prichard W., Prichard W., Prichard W., Prichard W., Roever S., Sadka E., Sander C., Schneider F., Schneider F., Schomerus M., Shekidele C., Stella P., Tegera A., Terkper S. E., Titeca K., Torgler B., Torgler B., Vincent U., Warner J., Warner J., Wilson Prichard   +72 more
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Supporting or stifling? Experiences of beginning teachers working within the Early Career Framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study discusses the experiences of a group of new teachers in England since the introduction of the Early Career Framework (ECF), against the backdrop of the global teacher recruitment and retention crisis. The experiences of new teachers within the ECF are under‐researched.
Lorna Smith, Nicola Warren‐Lee, Lucy Wenham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Precarity Between Law and Profit: Migrant Riders in Italy, Poland, and Spain

Social Inclusion
This article examines how platform‐mediated food delivery work shapes the socio‐economic inclusion and exclusion of migrants in Italy, Poland, and Spain.
Francesco Pasetti, Eleonora Celoria, Gianluca Iazzolino, Katarzyna Rakowska   +3 more
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Parental choice of private tuition: Valuing attention, judging quality and navigating access in England's underregulated supplementary education market

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Private supplementary education is burgeoning worldwide, and over 25% of English children have received private tutoring. The neoliberalisation of education and parents' responsibilisation for children's attainment have driven market growth, but not all can afford to participate.
Sarah L. Holloway, Sam Whewall, Helena Pimlott‐Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of increasing openness and integration to the MERCOSUR on the Uruguayan labour market. A CGE modeling analysis [PDF]

Uruguay is a small economy. Its integration to MERCOSUR has increased the exposure to regional macroeconomic inestability. The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of regional integration on labour market and poverty. We estimated wage differentials
Carmen Estrades, Maria Inés Terra, Marisa Bucheli, Silvia Laens   +3 more
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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Employability remains a critical issue for international students in the United Kingdom. This study adopts the Employability Agency Framework proposed by Pham et al. to explore how a group of international students actively exercised their agency to enhance their employability during their Master's studies in the United Kingdom.
Hoang Nguyen, Ming Cheng
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Changing Patronage and Informality Configurations in Ukraine: From the Shop floor Upwards

Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2020
This article examines hegemonic norms of political and moral economy in Ukraine today acting at the level of the workplace. My research is based on fieldwork I conducted in a large industrial city in the east of Ukraine from January to June 2019.
Denys Gorbach
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Growth, Fiscal Policy and the Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy [PDF]

We discuss the implications of informality on growth and fiscal policy by considering an informal sector based on low tech firms, in an open economy model of endogenous growth, where labour supply is elastic and increasing returns arise from public ...
Pedro, de Mendonça
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