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The Mexican Wage Curve 2000-2003: A Quantile Analysis [PDF]

, 2012
This paper exploits the Mexican Encuesta Nacional de Empleo Urbano (ENEU) to determine the existence of the wage curve—an empirical phenomena first suggested by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990)—during the period 2000–2003. We propose an innovative approach
Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector Elias
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Coping with crisis and precarity in the gig economy: ‘Digitally organised informality’, migration and socio-spatial networks among platform drivers in India

Environment and Planning
The most recent phase of services digitalisation in the global South, reflected in the widespread adoption of Internet and smart-phone technologies, has given rise to an emergent gig economy that employs tens of millions of workers across its diverse ...
Aditya Ray
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The origins of informality: the ILO at the limit of the concept of unemployment

Journal of Global History, 2019
Official histories suggest that the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the term ‘informal sector’ as a replacement for ‘traditional sector’, which, in its pairing with the ‘modern sector’, had fallen out of favour.
Aaron Benanav
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The cranial, mandibular, and hyoid anatomy of softshell turtles (Trionychidae): A revised character list for phylogenetic analysis

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Softshell turtles (Pan‐Trionychidae) are an early branching clade of hidden‐necked turtles (Cryptodira) with a rich fossil record extending back to the Early Cretaceous. The evolutionary history of softshell turtles is still unresolved because of their conservative morphology combined with high levels of polymorphism related to morphological ...
Léa C. Girard, Walter G. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

Easing the tension between the state and the market? Developing social protection and labour law during Latin American industrialization

Cogent Social Sciences, 2019
The onset of industrialization across Latin America put the social question squarely on the agenda of policy-makers. Although Latin American countries in many respects did not meet the conditions of socio-economic and political development that proved to
Ulf Thoene
doaj   +1 more source

The Costs and Benefits of Informality [PDF]

We explore the costs and benefits of informality associated with the informal sector lying outside the tax regime in a two-sector New Keynesian model.
Emanuela Lotti, Nicoletta Batini, Paul Levine   +2 more
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Body donor programs in Australia and New Zealand: Current status and future opportunities

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 301-328, March 2025.
Abstract Body donation is critical to anatomy study in Australia and New Zealand. Annually, more than 10,000 students, anatomists, researchers, and clinicians access tissue donated by local consented donors through university‐based body donation programs. However, little research has been published about their operations.
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

Product quality, informality, and child labour [PDF]

, 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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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing the heterogeneity in working conditions of migrant informal workers in China: a test of the WIEGO model of informal employment

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper sheds light on the internal heterogeneity within the informal economy by examining the working conditions of migrant informal workers in China.
Gengzhi Huang, Bowei Cai, Shuyi Liu, Desheng Xue   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source