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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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‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets

Urban studies, 2018
For more than a decade, co-working spaces have proliferated in cities worldwide. The paper discusses co-working as a critical urban practice because these spaces give support to the rising number of freelance workers in culture and creative industries ...
Janet Merkel
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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 world, Brazil and the labour informality: a conceptual approach

, 2016
This essay aims to present some theoretical inputs that allow a more comprehensive understanding of the conceptual issue of informality in the labor market.
Juliano Vargas
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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, Ranđelović Saša, Vladisavljević Marko   +2 more
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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]

, 2013
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
AAPS, Abdoul M., Amin A., Amin Y. Kamete, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Bauman Z., Bayat A., Beall J., Berman M., Blunch N.‐H., Bromley R., Bromley R., Butcher C., Caldeira T. P. R., Campbell E. K., Castells M., CHRA, CITY of HARARE, CITY of HARARE, Cresswell T., de soto H., Foucault M., Friedman E., García canclini N., Ghertner D. A., Gospodini A., Gueye C., Hansen K. T., Hart K., Holston J., ILO, Jimu I. M., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kamete A. Y., Kayuni H. M., King K., Legg S., Lindell I., Lindell I., Llobera J. R., Maloney W. F., Marcuse H., Meagher K., Misztal B. A., Misztal B. A., Mooya M. M., Moser C. O. N., MPSLSW, MPSLSW, Mubvami T., Odendaal N., Popke E. J., Prakash G., Rakodi C., Rakodi C., Robins S., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Roy A., Rupiya M., Samers M., Sandercock L., SDI, SDI, Simone A., Simone A., Simone A., Stern R. E., Stren R. E., Swilling M., Thomas J., Tibaijuka A. K., Tipple A. G., Tokman V. E., UN‐HABITAT, UN‐HABITAT, Watson V., Watson V., Wekwete K. H., Yiftachel O.   +83 more
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Research Gaps in Labour Market and Labour Force Information [PDF]

Relations industrielles, 2005
The purpose of the following paper is to point out some research gaps in labour market and labour force information. At the same time, the author outlines some areas where research seems to be necessary. The initial preparatory stage of manpower, the mechanisms of the short and long-run allocation of manpower encompass three important aspects that ...
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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, B Fortin, GE Perry, I Günther, J Albrecht, J Bennett, J Bennett, JE Rauch, Kanbur R, OECD, P Deshingkar, PP Wakker, RE Lucas, World Bank, Zenou Y   +14 more
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A Socio-Legal Exploration of the Linkages between Informal Employment, Social Protection and Labour Law in Latin America

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2015
For decades Latin American societies and policy-makers have attempted to confront the social, political and economic challenges brought about by high levels of informal employment and entrepreneurial activity.
Ulf Thoene
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