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Socioeconomic and Environmental Analysis Based on Water Sustainability Index in the Juan Angola Creek (Cartagena, Colombia)

open access: yesChemical Engineering Transactions, 2023
Cartagena is one of the cities with the greatest historical and cultural heritage in Colombia. It is surrounded by a system of islands, lagoons, creeks, and swamps among other water bodies.
Carolina Alvarado   +4 more
doaj  

No. 68: Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality.
Chikanda, Abel   +2 more
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Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom

open access: yesBritish 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
wiley   +1 more source

Product Quality, Informality, and Child Labour [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Product quality, informality, and child labour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper studies the interactions between the structure of product demand, relative wages, and the allocation of economic activity across two sectors.
Fotoniata, Eugenia, Moutos, Thomas
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Career motivations and perceptions of teaching of 16–19‐year‐olds in England and Wales

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study provides an understanding of career‐related motivations of 16–19‐year‐olds in schools and A‐level colleges in England and Wales. The 672 participants (62% women) were asked to complete a modified version of the Motivations for Career Choice and the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering scales and provide comments on
Sophie Thompson‐Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competitiveness, labour market and protection of the right to work in the member countries of the Pacific Alliance

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
The research determines the relationship between competitiveness, the labour market and the protection of the right to work at the constitutional level in the member countries of the Pacific Alliance, analysing for this (i) the evolution of the labour ...
Vincenzo Domenico Julio-Rospigliosi Porretti   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Earnings Inequality and the Informal Economy: Evidence from Serbia [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyse the extent and evolution of informality and inequality in the Serbian labour market between 2002 and 2007, using data from the Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS). Two surprising results emerge.
Gorana Krstić, Peter Sanfey
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Understanding teacher agency in the context of school‐based climate change and sustainability education: A case study of the experiences of teachers and school students in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on teacher agency as a conceptual framework, we explored the extent to which school teachers in secondary schools in England achieve agency in relation to teaching climate change and sustainability. This research provides a novel approach to understanding the relational and emergent qualities of teacher agency by bringing together ...
Nicola Walshe, Elizabeth A. C. Rushton
wiley   +1 more source

Defining and measuring informal employment in South Africa: A review of recent approaches [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reviews the Stats SA methodologies to measure informal employment before and after the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), as well as other recently proposed approaches (e.g., Devey, Skinner and Valodia, Heintz and Posel,
Derek Yu
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