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Roman Lessons: What if Informality was not a bug to be Corrected but a Bacterium Capable of Reactivating a Dormant Urban Metabolism?

open access: yes, 2020
In the Global North, informality is seen as a positive break to the rigidity of the traditional forms of housing and workplaces. That's because it is considered capable of enhancing the individuals who, being free to move in time and space, can use their
Alessandra Lai, Francesco Careri
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Informality as a Way of Living in the City. The Point of View of Urban Practices to Rethink the Categories of Urban Governance

open access: yes, 2023
The theme of urban informality has received increasing attention over the years, particularly as a result of some research by urban planners and sociologists.
Carlo Cellamare
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Publicly funded private schools and academic achievement: A comparative analysis of PISA data in European countries

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Job Separations, Job loss and Informality in the Russian Labor Market [PDF]

open access: yes
Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment, which we define in several ways posing the general question whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators ...
Tiziano Razzolini   +2 more
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Just Urban Design

open access: yes, 2022
Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.

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A repertoire of middle leading practices: A large‐scale investigation of middle leadership in schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents findings from an Australian study investigating the practices of middle leaders responsible for facilitating school development. Despite middle leaders being increasingly recognised as essential in the development of teaching and learning in schools, middle leadership remains under‐researched and comparatively overlooked ...
Peter Grootenboer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DIVERSITY OF ETHNICITY AND STATE INVOLVEMENT ON URBAN INFORMALITY IN BEIRUT [PDF]

open access: yes
Urban informality has become the dominant feature of urban growth on Beirut City and its periphery. Beirut context, as the rest of Lebanese cities, sheds light on a new era of controversy on urban informality.
Ahmed M. SOLIMAN
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Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001 [PDF]

open access: yes
Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working at the margins of labor market legislation or in microenterprises that lack basic labor market standards (Marcouiller, Ruiz de ...
José Galdo   +2 more
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Strategic Innovation for Sustainability: A Conceptual Model Linking Digitalization, Social Dynamics, and Climate Change Mitigation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses a significant research gap in the literature by systematically reviewing and synthesizing the interplay between social dynamics, environmental changes, and organizational innovation. Although prior research has explored these dimensions in isolation, the integrative framework remains lacking.
Gagan Deep Sharma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Patterns and Trends from Household Survey Microdata [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper documents the main patterns and trends of alternative definitions of labor informality in Latin America and the Caribbean, by exploiting a large database of more than 100 household surveys covering the period 1989-2005.
Gasparini Leonardo, Leonardo Tornaroli
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