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Migration Magnet: The Role of Work Experience in Rural-Urban Wage Diff erentials in Mexico [PDF]

This study estimates separate selectivity bias corrected wage equations for formal and informal workers in rural and urban Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS).
John P. Haisken-DeNew, Maren M. Michaelsen   +1 more
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The Informal Labor Market in Colombia: identification and characterization [PDF]

In this paper, we study the extent and nature of informality in Colombia by using the new chapter on informality in the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from August 2006 to December 2006, which includes new questions deepening the information on ...
Bernal Raquel
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Urbanization, Migration, Information

Проект Байкал, 2016
In the contemporary world urbanization becomes a large-scale process. Huge flows of people migrate from poorer districts to the cities with a higher level of consumption. It takes migrants about 15-25 years to give up their traditional ascetic way of life. In this period the ‘new citizens’ try to arrange compact settlements with an archaic way of life,
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Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey [PDF]

This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modelling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. We concentrate on labour and credit markets,
Emanuela Lotti, Nicoletta Batini, Paul Levine, Young-Bae Kim   +3 more
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Rethinking the governance of household water supply in Bujumbura

PlaNext, 2017
In her 2010 book, The Just City, Susan Fainstein evaluates justice in her case-study cities (Amsterdam, New York and London) though a three dimensional analysis of justice (Equity, Diversity and Democracy).
Anaïs De Keijser
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Value Added Taxes, Chain Effects and Informality [PDF]

This paper investigates determinants of informal economic activity. We present an equilibrium model of informality and test its implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil.
Aureo de Paula, Jose A. Scheinkman
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Education, ICT, and Youth Employability Strategies for Reducing Labor Informality in Guayaquil

Educational Process: International Journal
Background/purpose. Youth labor informality remains a persistent socioeconomic challenge in Ecuador, particularly in urban areas such as Guayaquil. Many young people are pushed into informal employment due to limited access to quality education, lack ...
Josué Fuela-Toabanda, Piero Coronel-Silva, Ercilia Franco-Cedeño, Roberto López-Chila   +3 more
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Exclusionary and livelihood-disrupting spatial reconfiguration of informal trading in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
The decongestion-driven spatial restructuring of informal trading, intended to rearrange the trading lots across the city, unintentionally propagates systemic marginalisation and disruptions to informal traders’ businesses in cities.
Buhle Dube, Thulisile Ncamsile Mphambukeli, Trynos Gumbo   +2 more
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Urban purifier + information cells

, 2012
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Mainstreaming informality and access to land through collaborative design and teaching of aspects of a responsive planning curriculum at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Town and Regional Planning, 2012
Access to urban land and resources and the pervasiveness of informality are perhaps the main cross-cutting features defining contemporary urbanism in the South, where the urbanisation of poverty is not only acute but where there is an increasing ...
Nigel Tapela
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