Search Results - subject:"INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT"

Informal labour in the construction industry in Kenya a case study of Nairobi

Mitullah, Winnie V; Njeri Wachira, Isabella - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003

Presents findings of a study of construction workers in a low income settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Finds that workers are predominantly employed on a casual or temporary basis without contracts, and with unregulated terms and conditions of employment; workers have no protection...

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Republic of Armenia; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has been developed for eradicating poverty in Armenia. It analyzes the poverty situation of Armenia, and evaluates the methodology and methodological issues. It discusses the PRSP goals, main policy directions, solution to poverty, and the reduction of...

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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam

Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2011

(english) In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the rich VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we...

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Labour market regulations and informal employment in China : To what extent are workers protected?

Cooke, FangLee - In: Journal of Chinese Human Resources Management 2 (2011) 2, pp. 100-116

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to chart the sharp rise of informal employment in urban China in the last decade … of employment agencies, the absence of a functioning social security system for workers in informal employment, and the …

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Rethinking the informal labour from an evolutionary point of view

Goktuna, Bilge Ozturk; Dayangac, Renginar - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 609-615

the political competition. We show that opportunist behaviour would amplify the relative size of the informal employment. …The model presents the dynamics and the equilibrium of an overlapping generation economy when there is informal … employment, a pension system and altruistic agents. The model inspires from stylised facts on developing and Euro …

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Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations

Freije, Samuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost every form of social protection and low-productivity/low-wage employment. This report summarizes the characteristics of the informal sector and provides policy recommendations to tackle it. Section...

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Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions in a Segmented Economy - Some Empirical Evidence From Brazil

Woltermann, Silke - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2002

considered: \'working\' or \'searching\'. In most countries though the labor market is segmented in formal and informal … employment and selfemployment. I argue that vacancies in these different labor market sectors are promoted via different channels …

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Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations

Freije, Samuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions in a Segmented Economy - Some Empirical Evidence From Brazil

Woltermann, Silke - 2002

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Job-search methods and labor market transitions in a segmented economy : some empirical evidence from Brazil

Woltermann, Silke - 2002

considered: "working" or "searching". In most countries though the labor market is segmented in formal and informal employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518394