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Informal employment on domestic care platforms: a study on the individualisation of risk and unpaid labour in mature market contexts

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2023
This article explains how digitally mediated provision of domestic care services perpetuates the invisibility and informality of such work through individualising risk, which we operationalise by one of its dimensions, that of unpaid labour.
V. Pulignano, Claudia Marà, Milena Franke, Karol Muszyński   +3 more
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Dimensions of Informality in Bangladesh Labour Market and the Consequent Wage Penalty

South Asia Economic Journal, 2019
The article examines the various dimensions and underlying causes of informal employment in the Bangladesh labour market and the associated wage penalty.
Mustafiz Rahman, D. Bhattacharya, Md. Al-Hasan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Precarious and Informal Labour

2019
The concepts of ‘precarity’ and ‘informality’ have become prominent ways of characterizing the adverse employment impacts of global market liberalization. In sociological terms, the word ‘precariat’ is often used to identify vulnerable populations forced to depend on unprotected and unstable jobs.
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Labour Regulations and Informalization of Industrial Labour in India

2019
Informalization and contractualization of labour in India’s organized manufacturing is analysed using NSS Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) and ASI data for 1999–2000 and 2011–12. It is found that between 1999–2000 and 2011–12, there was a significant increase in the employment share of both informal workers (57–72 per cent) and contract workers (20–
Bishwanath Goldar, Suresh Chand Aggarwal
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Labour supply of informal caregivers

International Review of Applied Economics, 1995
This paper contributes to the informal caregiving literature by investigating the relationship between caregiving and the caregiver's labour market decisions. Its main interest is in determining the factors that affect the caregiver's decisions to remain in the work force and the amount of time he/she chooses to work.
Cyril F. Chang, Shelley I. White-Means
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Digital Labour Platforms in the Italian Domestic Sector: Approaching (In)Formalisation Processes from the Other Way Round

Critica Sociologica
In this exploratory study, we investigate the effects of digital labour platforms (DLPs) on cleaning workers. The prevalence of informality in this sector leads us to suggest analysing workers’ experiences by combining the literature on DLPs with that on
I. Dimitriadis, Diego Coletto
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Footloose Labour

1996
In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. Beginning his local-level research in two villages in south Gujarat, the author discusses the mobilisation of casual labour, which is hired and fired according to the need of ...
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Invisible Labour of Informal Care

2022
Canadian Literature, No.
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Labour informality, patriarchal gender regimes and neoliberalism in Turkey

, 2020
Ayşe Arslan
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Information, Energy and Labour Force

1978
This study is part of an extensive research program whose objective is to discern the role in economic mechanisms of all the phenomena connected, on one hand, with information transmission (1) — (11) and, on the other hand, with energy transmission (12) — (19).
J. G. de Chalvron, N. Curien
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