Unpackaging residential segregation: the importance of scale and informal market processes
Investigaciones Geográficas, 2009 This paper addresses two principal issues: a) the scale at which one examines urban segregation; and b) how informality, specifically accessibility to land markets and the process of land appropriation by low-income groups in Latin American cities ...
Peter M. Ward
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Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets : the Mexican experience 1987-2002 [PDF]
This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a large informal or unregulated sector, Mexico.
Bosch, Mariano, Maloney, William
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The Informal Sector, Third Version [PDF]
This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil.
Aureo de Paula, Jose A. Scheinkman
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Incorporating informality into urban and regional planning education curriculum in Nigeria
Town and Regional Planning, 2012 To achieve sustainable development in any society the educational system must be responsive to the dynamics of that society. This article discusses issues on the level of training on informality in African planning schools with emphasis on the Lagos ...
Leke Oduwaye, Oluwafemi Olajide
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Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican Agenda [PDF]
inequality, poverty, income, education, gender ...
Sojo, Eduardo, Villarreal, Roberto
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This paper investigates the determinants of informal economic activity. We present two equilibrium models of informality and test their implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil.
José A. Scheinkman, Áureo de Paula
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Ideologies and informality in urban infrastructure: the case of housing in Soviet and post-Soviet Baku [PDF]
, 2019 Roth, S.
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Is Informality a Good Measure of Job Quality? Evidence from Job Satisfaction Data [PDF]
The formality status of a job is the most widely used indicator of job quality in developing countries. However, a number of studies argue that, at least for some workers, the informality status may be driven by choice rather than exclusion.
Carmen Pages, Lucia Madrigal
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'Mafias' in the Waterscape: Urban Informality and Everyday Public Authority in Bangalore
Water Alternatives, 2014 This article investigates the phenomenon of Bangaloreʼs urban 'water mafias', operators who extract and deliver groundwater to scores of informal residential areas in Indian cities. The term 'mafia' here is treated as a semantic area of situated meanings
Malini Ranganathan
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Developing Informality: The Production of Jakartaʼs Urban Waterscape
Water Alternatives, 2014 This paper argues the need for new conceptualisations of the relationship between water and development to better reflect the reality of cities in the Global South.
Michelle Kooy
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