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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Informal work"”.
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Investigating the role of a manager as a facilitator of ongoing informal work related learning
… develop the skills, experience and knowledge of workers so that they can maintain productive and sustainable practices. Such roles are widely considered valuable and integral to investing in, and building, individual and organisational capabilities. Despite these expectations, responsibilities …
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The Interaction between Personal and Company Environmental Values and Their Influence on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in Hospitality Sector Workplace: A Case Study of An International Hotel Company
… models have been tested in domestic, public and workplace settings, although in practice few of these have focused on hospitality workplaces. The limited focus on pro-environmental behaviour in hospitality workplace settings means that many areas of application of pro-environmental behaviour …
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Female Participation in the Informal Sector in Brazil in 1996 and in 2005
… I examine the participation of women in the informal sector in Brazil in 1996 and 2005. Using micro-level data from the Brazilian Monthly Employment Survey, I find Brazilian female workers became older, more educated, and that female informal employment increased over the period studied. …
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Essays on Labor Supply in the Multisectoral Markets of Brazil and Mexico
… or self-employment sectors rather than other informal work. However, when expected income falls, they are more likely to enter any informal sector. Thus, wives can enter any sector, but they will select the higher paying sectors when there is a realized negative income shock and the more …
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A global regulatory new deal for precarious and informal workers
… the conditions of the growing "precariat" or informal workforce. The growing incidence of precarious work is linked with increased inequality and heightened vulnerability. The thesis is concerned with the realm of regulation - hard laws, soft initiatives and other institutions that shape …
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A global regulatory new deal for precarious and informal workers
… the conditions of the growing "precariat" or informal workforce. The growing incidence of precarious work is linked with increased inequality and heightened vulnerability. The thesis is concerned with the realm of regulation - hard laws, soft initiatives and other institutions that shape …
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Juventude e educação técnica: a experiência na formação de jovens trabalhadores do Colégio Estadual Prof. Horacio Macedo /CEFET-RJ
… to quality education for all and nonalienated work. Informal work and underemployment prevail in production relations and the quantitative expansion of the school system has been characterized as a degrading offering to popular sectors. A large contingent of young people has abandoned their …
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“Old habits persist” Change and continuity in Black Country communities: Pensnett, Sedgley and Tipton, 1945-c.1970
… customary social mores of the lowermiddle and working-class inhabitants. Whilst aspirations to new housing and increased consumption affected perceptions of status and social standing, the economic strategies of the pre-war period prevailed. The thesis evaluates the effect of affluence upon …
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Torn wheels and rough pavements: an ethnography of navigation towards informal and indigenous urban futures amidst crisis in Warwick Junction, Durban
… explores the context(s) in which ‘mobile informality' is practiced by traders and associated workers in Durban's Warwick Junction, theorising the conceptual affordances that arise from it. Using an ethnographic approach, the study explores the navigatory responses of barrow operators and …
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Exploring the forms of violence experienced by women street vendors, and the strategies they use to sustain a living, in a particular South African periurban context, Muswodi Dipeni
… classify themselves as women street vendors. I worked with twelve women street vendor participants, sampled through non-probability sampling, using semi-structured interviews to collect data. I employed a thematic analysis approach to analyse the data. In addition to highlighting the forms of …
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Access, barriers and successes of educational pathways for out-of-school youth. applying the capability theory
… skills, capabilities, and agency necessary for workplace participation and transition into adulthood. Using life histories and photovoice, the research captured the lived experiences of current learners and graduates, revealing both immediate educational impacts and longer-term trajectories. The …
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"it's Only Fellow Refugees Who Assist:" Social Capital, Social Institutions, And Self-Reliance In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
… role of humanitarian organizations and social networks. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews with refugee households and humanitarian workers in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, along with weekly questionnaires with refugee families, this dissertation brings together three papers on …
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Cape Town clothing workers' attitudes towards key aspects of and alternatives to regulation by the Bargaining Council
… This study explores attitudes held by formal and informal clothing workers toward the regulatory environment and possible alternatives to current regulation by the bargaining council. The research aimed to explore worker understanding of the regulatory environment, in particular the wages versus …
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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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Youth employability in ghetto neighbourhoods: The role of personal agency in reproducing or transforming social structures
… determine action. The critical realist framework offers a helpful understanding of social structures as both material and cultural since human agency, or action, is influenced by circumstances that are both materially objective and culturally subjective. By probing the interaction of agency …
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Ageing and Downward Mobility in Later Life: The Negotiation of Life Chances by Vulnerable Older Persons in Singapore
… depends on their ability to undertake formal or informal work and the quality of their socio-family relationships. Building on the relevant theoretical literature, this thesis demonstrates how crucial aspects of older people’s life-course trajectories lead up to their current situations of …
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Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
… telling us how digital labour platforms impact workers. The fear inherent in this discourse comes from the fact that many global North workers are faced with only ‘casualized' platform work rather than job opportunities that come with career progression, steady increments to their incomes, and …
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Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women's food insecurity coping strategies in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC
… as made visible through mobility and social networks in two cities. Everyday experiences of food security can be bolstered by access to greater mobility (e.g., access to a taxi/bus to go to the central market), which can be provided through social networks (e.g., sharing a ride with a family …
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Itinerância do comércio informal: a precarização do trabalho ambulante nas praias de João Pessoa/PB.
… João Pessoa, Paraíba, centrado en el trabajador informal ambulante por la playa, mientras parte de la clase obrera, así como pruebas preocupante de la configuración actual del mundo del trabajo. Analizamos con nuestra investigación las manifestaciones de la informalidad y la precariedad del …
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