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Domestic Work and the Gig Economy in South Africa: Old wine in new bottles?
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2020 Based on innovative, mixed-methods research, this article examines the entry of on-demand platform models into the domestic work sector in South Africa.
Abigail Hunt, Emma Samman
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Global Labour Journal, 2023 This paper discusses the role of labour regulation and trade unions in collective organisation of workers in non-standard, diffuse and informal labour relations in the Global South.
Ilona Steiler
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Informed consent for labour epidurals: what labouring women want to know [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie, 2000 To determine A) what a labouring woman expects to hear about epidural analgesia before consenting, B) if she feels able to understand the risks and thereby assess if we are obtaining informed consent.Sixty actively labouring women were surveyed immediately after requesting an epidural. Demographic, labour, epidural and consent information were included
A, Jackson +4 more
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De-westernizing creative labour studies: The informality of creative work from an ex-centric perspective [PDF]
, 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.
Alacovska, A., Gill, R.
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Self-employment, wage employment and informality in a developing economy [PDF]
, 2014 This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies, and we give a diagrammatic formulation of the market ...
Bennett, J, Rablen, M
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The impacts of the Brazilian Labour Reform on employment, output, and labour productivity [PDF]
Panoeconomicus, 2023 This paper discusses the role played by the recent Brazilian Labour Reform (BLR) in conditioning the level and the rate of growth of employment, value added and productivity in the Brazilian economy from 2017.
Amitrano Claudio Roberto +2 more
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Information in online labour markets [PDF]
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2018 Online labour markets are virtual platforms that solve information problems to enable gains from trade in remote labour services. They make employers and workers aware of each other, and allow them to communicate, contract, and produce remotely. Recent research suggests, however, that organizing production to include remote work remains challenging ...
Pelletier, Adeline, Thomas, Catherine
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A Short History of the Informal Economy
Global Labour Journal, 2023 When coined about half a century ago, employment in the informal economy was discussed by what it was not: formal. Addressed as a sector of the urban workforce, its definition was a summing up of descriptive traits which made manifest how people in the ...
Jan Breman
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Labour market effects of social security contributions reform in Serbia [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2016 In Serbia the inactivity rate of the working-age population is close to 40%, among the highest in Europe. The country also faces a high informal employment rate of 24%.
Žarković-Rakić Jelena +2 more
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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy [PDF]
, 2012 © 2012 Bennett et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction ...
AK Basu +14 more
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