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Showing 1 to 20 of 4014 for “"Informal"”.
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Entrepreneurship in the informal economy: evidence from informal institutional environments
The informal economy remains understudied and a misunderstood phenomenon. This dissertation examines entrepreneurship in the informal economy by drawing upon a variety of theories in management research to examine antecedents that may explain and predict the entrepreneur’s likelihood of …
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Essays on informal banking
… the role of time-inconsistent preferences in informal banking. The first two chapters focus on specific banking institutions, while the third studies individual welfare more generally. In Chapter 1, I develop a model of rotating savings and credit associations (roscas) where members are …
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Informal science in the classroom: how informal and formal educational institutions support science instruction
… of formal educational facilities partnering with informal facilities to bring these practices to students. This study explored the effect these blended approaches had on both student attitudes and their achievement in science content areas. To do this, surveys were designed to assess these areas …
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Studies in Indian informal sector
… the trade liberalization policies and the informal sector wages, and examines the economy of the self-employed sector of India. Specifically, this dissertation (i) develops a general equilibrium model incorporating the self-employed sector as a separate informal sector and demonstrates the …
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Professional Growth: Informal Peer Observation
… how teachers perceived the experience of informal peer observation in relation to their professional growth. The study was conducted in a Pre-K-8 public school for three months while teachers participated in informal peer observation rounds. When teachers completed their informal peer …
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The health of informal carers
In order to advance our understanding of informal carer health, this mixed-method research was conducted amongst a large, general population of informal carers. Initially, a postal survey was carried out using the UK version of the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) health status questionnaire. The study …
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Argument mining with informal text
… in nature. However, the complexity of these informal arguments presents a challenge for argument mining. Argument mining is the task of automatically analysing arguments, such that the unstructured information contained in them is converted into structured representations. Current practice in …
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The informal sector in Cuernavaca
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Extracting information from informal communication
… on the problem of extracting information from informal communication. Textual informal communication, such as e-mail, bulletin boards and blogs, has become a vast information resource. However, such information is poorly organized and difficult for a computer to understand due to lack of …
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Visualization feedback from informal specifications
… system for digital system synthesis from informal specifications. Because of the versatility of the English language, there can be more than one interpretation of specification sentences. So before these specifications are synthesized into formal models, it is necessary to obtain …
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions, and the Informal Economy
… relationships between institutions (formal and informal), entrepreneurial outcomes (productive and unproductive), and shadow economy size at the U.S. state-level. Chapter 1 opens with some discussion of the topics explored here and provides an overview of important results from each of the …
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The Electrophysiology of Written Informal Language
… changing. Part of the dynamic nature of informal communication is the introduction and adoption of new linguistic elements. Online communication provides a window into this informal public discourse; therefore, it may be useful for testing hypotheses about the processes underlying the …
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The information needs of informal carers
… is concerned with the information needs of informal carers, or, as they are now increasingly referred to, carers Within this thesis, the appellation carer is defined in terms chosen by carers themselves. In their words, • A carer is someone whose life is restricted by the need to assist …
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Neural Dependency Parsing of Informal Persian
… used in writing and the conversational informal form typically used in oral communications. With the advent of social media, the restrictions against the use of the conversational variant in writing have been relaxed in certain contexts, and speakers tend to write in the spoken informal …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Informal Economies
In this monograph I introduce informal economies in macroeconomic models to study the following issues: (i) How should governments conduct monetary and fiscal policies in the presence of the shadow economy? (ii) How do labor market policies, regulations and mandated benefits affect the size of the …
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Informal selling in central Cape Town
… aim of the thesis is to use a particular set of informal sellers in central Cape Town to focus study on aspects of informal sellers that have not previously been given high priority in analysis of the informal economic sector. In so doing, insight into the perceptions of informal sellers (in …
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Alternative contracting for informal economy financing
The informal economy in South Africa is a source of considerable debate. Academics and practitioners struggle to define, characterize, measure and place the informal economy in South Africa's macroeconomic picture. Despite the polemic, it is generally agreed that the informal economy is important. …
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Building personal lives as informal migrants in South Africa : narratives of poor African informal migrants in Johannesburg
… of aspirations for a better life amongst the informal migrants, an observation that is accompanied by several relevant findings: firstly, that the migrants’ resilience in their constraining environment cannot be attributed to itemized factors. Rather, their resilience takes the form of a …
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