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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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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective [PDF]
International journal of cultural studies, 2019 Creative labour studies focus almost exclusively on Euro-American metropolitan ‘creative hubs’ and hence the creative worker they theorize is typically white, middle-class, urban and overwhelmingly male.
Ana Alacovska, Rosalind Gill
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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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Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
, 2021 This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries?Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru.
R. Maurizio, A. Monsalvo
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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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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022 We perform a systematic review of the literature on the association between income, employment, and urban poverty from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our results, derived from the analysis of 243 articles, confirm the significant role of employment in ...
V. Pérez +3 more
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Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina [PDF]
, 2013 Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react through cutting labour benefits to achieve cost reductions.
Acosta, P., Montes-Rojas, G.
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Informal employment in the Kabylia region (Algeria): labour force segmentation, mobility and earnings [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021 A pooled sample of 3,290 Algerian workers from two regional household surveys captures the determinants of access to the formal vs. informal labour market segments.
Youghourta Bellache +3 more
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Labour Mobility and Informality: Romanian Migrants in Spain and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Croatia
Politics and Governance, 2022 Post-Weberian definitions see the state–individual relationship as a “do ut des” one. The state grants protection, education, medical care, and its citizens contribute labour, compliance, and taxes. When this does not occur, it is generally accepted that
Abel Polese +8 more
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GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2001 The present paper has two main objectives. The first one is to discuss the process of structural changes in the labour market, under the theoretical framework of the process of informality, and it different expressions, standing out the flexibility of ...
Maria Cristina Cacciamali
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