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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Informal Labor"”.
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The work/family experience in the informal labor market: Evidence from informally employed mothers in Brazil
… as lived by low-income, Afro-Brazilian, informally employed mothers in the city of Salvador, Brazil. Using a phenomenological approach and Giorgi’s descriptive analytical method, six themes with 21 sub-themes emerged from interviews with 24 mothers in Salvador. The study results suggest …
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The seen, the unseen, and the aesthetics of infrastructure
… that define space and use. Unregulated, human labor markets are deeply embedded into necessary components of contemporary global, societal infrastructures. This relationship plays itself out in plain sight, and yet can be silent. I imaginatively liken laboring bodies to the inner workings of …
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Chutes and Ladders: Climate Variability and the Decision to Enter Sex Work in India
… migration, and participation in risky informal labor markets, especially for poor households in developing countries which are both more likely to depend on the environment for their livelihood and less able to insulate against climate shocks. Within poor households, gender inequality …
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Three Essays on Social Networks
… a model of time allocation between formal and informal labor supply where workers learn of informal job opportunities from their peers in a social network. In addition to formal income taxation and enforcement, individuals labor supply decisions depend on the number of their peers with informal …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… research designs, they study the labor market effects of a wage subsidy in a highly informal economy, the impact of a tax-breaks program on small formal firms' entrance decision and the probability of survival, and the impact of exposure to neighborhood crime on school absenteeism, …
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Social insurance provision for women in the urban informal sector : interpreting the successful strategy of Working Women's Forum, India
… unpredicted decline in secure, formally employed labor, and subsequent growth in informal labor. The second is an unprecedented decline in state welfare rhetoric and policy. These simultaneous trends have resulted in an increase in the proportion of workers that do not receive secure wages or …
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Creating healthier populations: an assessment of the use of data on social determinants of health to inform decision-making in eight countries
… International Labour Organization (ILO) on the informal labor sector. All data were used in descriptive and multivariable regression analyses. RESULTS: Of 8,754 respondents, 56.2% (95% CI: 55.1%, 57.2%) ranked healthcare as the most important determinant of health. Politics was the determinant …
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Three Essays on Social Networks
… a model of time allocation between formal and informal labor supply where workers learn of informal job opportunities from their peers in a social network. In addition to formal income taxation and enforcement, individuals’ labor supply decisions depend on the number of their peers with …
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Essays on the Effects of Immigration on Labor Markets
… three chapters on the effects of immigration on labor markets. The first chapter studies the effects of an informal labor supply shock on the host regions, the second chapter investigates the spillover effects on non-host regions through the production network, and the third chapter provides a …
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Crowded Out: The Effect of Sex Ratios on the Sex Worker Labor Market and Migration in India
… literature by bringing more clarity to how the labor market impacts the decisions of sex workers.</p>
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Informality in the City: a Theoretical Analysis
… studies the relationship between the informal sector (both in the labor and the housing market) and the city structure.
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Effect of Resource Curse on Child Well-being in Resource-rich States, Specifically in Post-Soviet States
… while out earning money—most probably through informal labor—they had to leave their children without supervision behind a locked door at home. The eldest of five children, all girls, was seven years old. The family did not know anyone who could be with their daughters, nor could they afford to …
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Health Assessment of Artisanal Metal Work: Injury Patterns, Aerosol Exposures, and Biomonitoring
Artisanal metal sculptors are an often independent and self-employed workforce whose contributions to the cultural landscape remain underrecognized in public health research. Despite sustained exposure to airborne particulates and acute injury hazards, these workers operate outside traditional …