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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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Labour income inequality and the informal sector in Colombian cities
Cuadernos de Economía, 2017 Labour markets in developing countries are crucial to determine income inequality. In this paper, we use a panel data approach to study the effect of the informal sector on labour income inequality for thirteen cities in Colombia from 2002-2015.
John Ariza, Gabriel Montes-Rojas
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Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa: [PDF]
South Africa's high involuntary unemployment and small informal sector are attributed to an underperforming formal sector and barriers to entry in the informal sector. This paper examines the economywide linkages between the formal and informal economies
Davies, Rob, Thurlow, James
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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The Lighthouse Effect and Beyond [PDF]
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after a minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far explained as a byproduct of a signal (a lighthouse) conveyed by
Marta Ribeiro +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Private supplementary education is burgeoning worldwide, and over 25% of English children have received private tutoring. The neoliberalisation of education and parents' responsibilisation for children's attainment have driven market growth, but not all can afford to participate.
Sarah L. Holloway +2 more
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Foreign Capital Inflow, Skilled-Unskilled Wage Gap, and Welfare in the Presence of the Informal Sector [PDF]
This paper attempts to analyse the impact of trade liberalisation on the skilled- unskilled wage gap and the level of welfare of developing countries, which are generally characterised by large “informal” labour markets.
Kausik Gupta, Tania Basu
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British 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
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Problems of Working Women in the Rural Informal Sector of Punjab (Pakistan)
Lahore Journal of EconomicsThe informal sector plays a significant role in Pakistan’s economy as well as in other developing countries. The role of the informal sector in solving the unemployment problem of Third World countries has become the focus of a conceptual and empirical ...
Karamat Ali, Abdul Hamid
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