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Nezhyvenko, Oksana. "Informal employment in Ukraine and European Union transition countries." Thesis, Paris Est, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PESC0047/document.
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L'emploi informel est devenu un sérieux défi pour l'économie ukrainienne et des pays en transition au cours de l'adaptation aux conditions du marché. La tendance du nombre de travailleurs qui participent au secteur informel est en hausse depuis les dernières années. Dans mes recherches, je vais présenter l'état actuel de l'emploi informel en Ukraine et les pays en transition. Une attention particulière est accordée à la répartition du travail entre les différentes catégories de population, en divisant les individus en cinq catégories (employés formels, employés informels, travailleurs indépendants formels, travailleurs indépendants informels et chômeurs) selon la définition de l'emploi informel de l'OIT. Nous examinons le marché du travail en utilisant les données de Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey pour l'Ukraine et Survey on Living and Income Conditions pour les pays en transition et nous élaborons la fonction des gains du capital humain pour le marché du travail en appliquant la fonction de répartition des gains de Mincer, afin d'étudier les facteurs qui déterminent les revenus et le choix de l'emploi de l'individu en Ukraine et les pays en transitionInformal employment became a serious challenge for the Ukrainian economy and economy of transition countries during the adjustment to market conditions. Trends of the number of workers participating in the informal sector have been rising for the last years. In my research I will present the current state of informal employment of Ukraine and transition countries. Detailed attention is paid to labour distribution across different population categories by dividing the individuals into five categories (formal employee, informal employee, formal self-employed, informal self-employed and unemployed) following the definition of informal employment from the ILO. We examine labour market using the data of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for Ukraine and the Survey on Living and Income Conditions for transition countries and we design human capital earnings function for labour market by applying Mincer earnings distribution function in order to investigate the factors that determine the individual’s earnings and choice of the employment status both for Ukraine and transition countries
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Gonzalez, Briseno Alfredo. "Informal employment in Mexico an analysis of returns in the formal and informal labor markets /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2008. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4411.
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Pinsak, Samantha. "Everything is not sawa sawa: Abuse and informal employment in Kenya." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:106847.
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Thesis advisor: Can ErbilViolence against women and subsequent gender-based violence are issues that plague the world, harming women’s wellbeing as well as that of their families. Thirty-nine percent and twenty-one percent of Kenyan women have experienced physical and sexual violence, respectively, in their lifetimes. While there have been contested studies showing that employment can both increase and decrease the risk of suffering from violence, particularly in domestic settings, this study examines how a Kenyan woman’s experience of violence is likely to affect her level (formal or informal) of employment in the future. The results of this study indicate that emotional abuse, having a partner that drinks, educational attainment, living in a rural setting, and age are significant factors in a woman’s probability of working. Conditioned on working, experiencing controlling behaviors from a partner, educational attainment, justification of violence, ethnicity, income rank, partner’s occupation, and age at first marriage influence a woman’s probability of working informally. These results vary based on the type of employment studied, but can have wide-ranging consequences for the economic development of Kenya and empowerment of Kenyan women
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2016
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: Economics
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Koike, Quintanar Sayuri Adriana. "Urban structure, labor market, informal employment and gender in Mexico City." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/323361.
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Existe una amplia literatura que identifica cómo la estructura urbana afecta los resultados en el mercado laboral a través de dos factores. El primero es la desconexión espacial entre trabajadores y las oportunidades laborales y, el segundo es la segregación residencial. Actualmente, es común que las personas vivan lejos de sus lugares de trabajo. Asimismo, es conocido que los individuos con similares características socioeconómicas tienden a vivir en el mismo vecindario. Por tanto, la segregación residencial y la desconexión espacial entre el trabajo y la residencia de los individuos podrían tener influencia sobre sus resultados en el mercado de trabajo, así como en la tasa de empleo, en la informalidad y en el ingreso. Además, si lo anterior es cierto, los patrones geográficos de estos resultados son menos aleatorios, lo que podría implicar la presencia de efectos derrame. La existencia de estos efectos significaría que la desconexión espacial y la segregación residencial tendrían un rol clave en la determinación de los resultados antes mencionados. En otras palabras la concentración de ventajas o desventajas socioeconómicas ocasionaría efectos derrame sobre los individuos y los vecindarios donde viven. Bajo esta perspectiva, la Ciudad de México es un caso de estudio interesante como se discute extensivamente. La evidencia empírica apunta a que esta ciudad sufre de desconexión espacial y segregación residencial, lo que afecta los resultados en el mercado laboral de sus residentes. Es a partir de esta idea central en la cual se construye la presente tesis. La tesis tiene dos objetivos principales. El primer objetivo es analizar la relación entre la estructura urbana (desconexión espacial y segregación residencial) y los resultados en el mercado laboral en la Ciudad de México en 2010. El segundo objetivo es estudiar los patrones espaciales de tres resultados en el mercado laboral de 1990 a 2010. Estudiar estas cuestiones es relevante, pues la elección residencial de los individuos afecta sus resultados laborales a través del acceso a los puestos de trabajo, la segregación residencial o los efectos vecindario. El espacio es un factor económico importante al incrementar los efectos positivos o negativos de la concentración espacial de las ventajas o desventajas, respectivamente. La tesis contribuye a la literatura estudiando los efectos que tiene el acceso a puestos de trabajo informales sobre el empleo. Para probar esta relación estimamos un modelo de probabilidad de estar empleado incluyendo diversos índices de accesibilidad por nivel educativo (básico y post-básico) y estatus laboral (formal e informal). Asimismo, estimamos el parámetro de este índice, el cual toma diferentes valores dependiendo del modo de transporte y del estatus laboral. Esto indica que la accesibilidad por estatus laboral podría afectar la probabilidad de estar empleado de forma distinta. Los resultados indican que los más afectados por la cercanía a las oportunidades laborales son las mujeres, los trabajadores menos educados y los trabajadores informales. Otra contribución es la identificación del impacto distinto que tiene la estructura urbana sobre las oportunidades laborales de acuerdo al género de los trabajadores. Encontramos que la segregación residencial afecta negativamente la participación de las mujeres en la fuerza laboral, en tanto vivir en un vecindario rezagado decrece la probabilidad de ser trabajador formal en los hombres. Finalmente, estudiamos los patrones espaciales de tres resultados en el mercado laboral (la tasa de no empleo, la tasa de informalidad laboral y los salarios). Utilizamos diferentes modelos econométricos para explicar los patrones espaciales de dichas variables, identificando los efectos endógenos y contextuales (o los efectos derrame globales y locales, respectivamente). La mayor contribución fue analizar estos resultados por género, extendiendo el análisis a otros resultados laborales además de la tasa de desempleo.There is a significant portion of the literature that identifies the way the urban structure can affect labor market outcomes by means of two factors. The former is the spatial disconnection between workers and job opportunities, and the latter is residential segregation. At present, it is common for people to live far away from the place they work. Additionally, it is well known that individuals with similar socioeconomic characteristics, such as income, tend to reside in the same neighborhood. Hence, residential segregation and the spatial disconnection between jobs’ location and individuals’ residence may have an influence on the labor market outcomes of individuals, and producing an impact on as the rate of employment, informal employment, and the level of wages. Moreover, if so, the geographic patterns of those labor market outcomes become less random and, then, involving the presence of spillover effects. The existence of spillovers means that spatial disconnection and residential segregation have a key role in determining the previous outcomes. In other words, the spatial concentration of either socio-economic disadvantages or advantages entails spillover effects both for individuals and for the neighborhoods in which they live. Under this perspective, Mexico City is an interesting case study, as we discuss extensively in this dissertation. Empirical evidence witnesses that this city suffers from spatial disconnection and residential segregation that affects the labor market outcomes of its residents. This is the core idea in which the discussion of this thesis will be built around. This dissertation targets two main objectives. The former is to analyze the relationship between urban structure, such as spatial disconnection and residential segregation, and labor market outcomes in Mexico City in 2010. The latter is to study the observed spatial patterns of selected labor marker outcomes from 1990 to 2010. Addressing these research questions is relevant because the residential choices of individuals affect an individual’s labor market outcomes through access to jobs, residential segregation, or neighborhood effects. Space turns to be an important economic factor. It can heighten either positive or negative effects of the spatial concentration of advantageous or disadvantageous opportunities, respectively. The dissertation contributes to the literature by studying the effects of access to informal jobs on employment. In order to prove this relationship, we estimate a probability model of being employed, including different types of job accessibility indices by level of education (basic and post-basic education) and labor status (formal and informal). We also estimate the decay parameter of the accessibility index. This decay parameter takes different values depending on the mode of transport and labor status. This condition indicates that job accessibility by labor status could affect the probability of being employed differently. Our results assess that the most affected by closest job opportunities were women, less educated workers and informal workers. Other contribution of this dissertation is to identify to which extent the effects of the urban structure impact on job opportunities according to the workers’ gender. We found that residential segregation has negative effects on labor-force participation for married women and that living in a deprived neighborhood decreases the probability of being a formal worker for men. Finally, we study the spatial patterns of three labor markets outcomes, namely non-employment rates, informal employment rates, and wages. We use different spatial econometric models to explain the spatial patterns of those variables, identifying endogenous and contextual effects (or global and local spillover effects, respectively). The major contribution of our analysis is studying the different kinds of labor market outcomes by gender, instead of limiting the scope to unemployment only.
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Pelek, Selin. "Les effets du salaire minimum sur le marché du travail turc." Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131001.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser des effets du salaire minimum en Turquie où le salaire minimum est un instrument de politique sociale essentiel. Cette thèse s’articule autour de quatre chapitres : Le premier chapitre présente les institutions du salaire minimum et les principaux résultats obtenus dans la littérature concernant les divers effets du salaire minimum sur les différentes variables économiques et sociales dans les pays en développement. Le deuxième chapitre identifie empiriquement le profil des salariés payés au salaire minimum. Les résultats indiquent que la probabilité d’être rémunéré au salaire minimum est élevée parmi la population considérée comme « fragile ». Le troisième chapitre examine les effets du salaire minimum sur l’emploi dans le cadre de la demande et de l’offre du travail et montre que le salaire minimum n’a pas d’impact négatif sur l’emploi. Par ailleurs, une hausse du salaire minimum exerce un effet positif sur la probabilité de rester en emploi. Le dernier chapitre étudie l’évolution de la distribution des salaires au cours de la dernière décennie en Turquie. Les résultats indiquent que la hausse du salaire minimum en 2004 a contribué à réduire les inégalités salarialesMinimum wage is an important tool of social policy. It consists of four chapters: The first chapter presents the institutions of the minimum wage and the main results in the literature concerning the effects of minimum wages on the various economic and social variables in developing countries. The second chapter identifies empirically the profile of workers paid at minimum wage. The results indicate that the probability of receiving the minimum wage is high among the groups considered "fragile". The third chapter examines the impact of the minimum wage on employment in the context of demand and supply of labor and shows that the minimum wage has no negative impact on employment. Besides, a minimum wage increase has a positive effect on the probability of remaining employed. The last chapter analyzes the evolution of the wage distribution over the last decade in Turkey. The results show that the minimum wage increase in 2004 contributed to reduce wage inequality in this country
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Tuc, Mis Sine. "Informal Sector Wage Gap In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613741/index.pdf.
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Informality has been a widespread fact in most of developing countries. Especially after the implementation of liberalization policies in the 1980s, informal sector has expanded, and informal employment has been more attractive in the Turkish economy. The aim of this thesis is to examine whether there is wage gap between formal and informal employment in Turkey for the years 2007 and 2008. In order to test if the determinants of wages are different, selection corrected wage equations are estimated for manufacturing and service sectors for men and women separately by using the Household Labor Force Survey micro level data of TURKSTAT. We also estimated Multinomial Logit model in order to be able to take the sector selection process into account. According to our estimation results, there was a significant wage gap between formal and informal employment in Turkey for the years 2007 and 2008, even after controlling for a number of individual-specific characteristics. This indicates the existence of the segmented labor market in terms of wages in Turkey, as it is asserted by the number of researchers arguing against the neo-classical labor market theory.
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Yilmaz, Emek. "How Does The State Promote Informal Employment: The Case Of A Kilim Workshop." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608087/index.pdf.
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This thesis argues the interaction between the Turkish state and informal employment. Literature review on informal sector, flexibilization of the labor market and feminist approach are the bases of this argument. On the other hand, the role of the state in economy is discussed in relation to Bretton Woods Institutions. Taking into consideration the state and informal employment arguments, this study illustrates with a study of a Kilim Weaving Workshop in a town of Ankara how informal work is connected with the state institution Public Education Center. For this study, I conducted participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 10 people out of 30 in research area.
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Islam, Farzana. "Women, employment, and the family : poor informal sector women workers in Dhaka City." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418496.
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This thesis is an outcome of epistemological and ontological exploration of poor women engaged in Informal sector (IFS) and a 12 months anthropological fieldwork in a selected poor neighbourhood (Islambag) of Dhaka city they reside. Basic theoretical framework of the thesis, have been resourced from feminist theoretical perspectives and anthropological works. Fieldwork revealed that in Bangladesh, theoretical works on urban poor women engaged in the informal sector are scanty, lack insights and inadequate. Nevertheless, some insights has definitely been gained in the process of fieldwork, these are: access to employment of poor women in the IFS is inconsistent, and very low paid. The assumption reflected in the wide range literature that earning by the women strengthens their position in the family it frees them from subordination, is proven to be over simplistic conception. The finding suggests that the position of women is overwhelmed by the cultural, religious values and mechanism of `male dominance'. Dependency of women on male family or household members and control over sexuality remain on the polar side of the male. However, most consistent and in every sphere that poor women have been taking their intense initiative in constructing fictive kinship network with almost all categories of men and women and use it as social capital for their survival. In this process they consistently innovate strategies to expand this fictive kinship network in order to strengthen the effectiveness of utilization of this network for earning in one hand and advancement on the other. Not limiting within the fictive kinship, poor women is constantly reviewing and learning to resist in one hand and using the actual kin on the other for their subsistence and promotion. So the basic conclusion of the study has been appeared to be that poor women of my study are intensely valuing the social relations started from actual kin to constructing fictive kinship and transform it to social capital in order to develop a solid foundation that can be used for their economic livelihood and life in general. Both extensive and intensive exploration into their process of constructing social capital and its role in the life of poor women is an absolute necessity for academia to have an understanding of the depth of their problem before drawing any major conclusion. This thesis is a step towards that goal.
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Shao, Jing. "Essays on fertility, informal childcare, maternal employment and child health development in China." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16770/.
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This thesis contains three chapters exploring the female labour force participation in China. The first chapter investigates how fertility influences female labour force participation; the second chapter investigates how grandparents’ childcare determines mothers’ labour force participation; and the third chapter investigates the relationship between maternal employment in rural China and children’s health development. For each chapter, instruments are selected for the endogenous regressors and instrumental variable estimators are adopted. Results from this thesis show that there is a negative relationship between fertility and female labour force participation in China but grandparents’ providing childcare can increase mothers’ labour force participation, and children in rural China can benefit from their mothers’ off-farm work.
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Muttze, Takudzwa. "Transitions into informal employment: an analysis of South African panel data: 2008-2012." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/4498.
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South Africa’s labour market is characterised by high unemployment but relatively low levels of informal employment, making it distinct from other developing countries. The existing literature appears to show evidence of high mobility rates of labour across labour market states. The coexistence of high labour mobility rates, yet high unemployment and weak informal employment in South Africa’s labour market is therefore puzzling. Considerable research has been done to explain this phenomenon and has suggested that barriers to informal entrepreneurship form the key reason why informal employment is relatively low in South Africa compared to other developing countries. Worker transitions have however not been a focal question in the literature. Using data from the National Tncome Dynamics Study (NTDS 2008-2012), this study sought to examine the characteristics of workers who move into informal employment, attaching importance to those who become self-employed. Transition matrices are constructed showing the proportion of workers who stayed or moved into different labour market states between 2008 and 2012, and linking the movements to 2008 personal characteristics. Churning between labour market states was found to be relatively high, albeit formal wage employment exhibiting immobility. Transitions out of informal employment were high, reflecting its survivalist nature. Conversely, those from unemployment into informal employment, particularly self-employment were low. Using the probit regression model, transitions to informal employment were found to be more associated with workers who are generally marginalised from formal employment opportunities. The results suggest that the South African labour market is to a larger extent not reflective of the Dualist narrative of ease of movement of workers from unemployment into informal employment and barriers into informal entrepreneurship are high. To date, policies which have sought to encourage informal entrepreneurship have not been a success. A central challenge to policymakers is to create an enabling environment for the unemployed to start their own informal businesses. This has the potential of reducing unemployment and poverty rates in the country.
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Sezer, Yasar. "Cohort Analysis Of Informal Sector In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612245/index.pdf.
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This thesis examines the life-cycle profile of informal employment in Turkey. To achieve this goal cohort analysis technique and 2000-2007 Household Labor Force Survey micro level data of State Institute of Statistics is used. Informal sector is composed of people working without social security coverage due to their current jobs. Analyzes are conducted both for the total sample and six education groups
separately. Besides informal employment, labor force participation and unemployment rates are also examined and using these variables net transitions between the sectors over the life-cycle are tired to be observed. According to the
resultsinformal employment rate decreases at young ages, relatively stable at middle ages and then increases rapidly at older ages. Moreover, strong cohort effects are found in many variables and the cross section profiles differ from the true life-cycle profiles remarkably.
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Skira, Meghan. "Essays on Informal Care, Labor Supply and Wages." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2652.
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Thesis advisor: Andrew BeauchampThesis advisor: Peter Gottschalk
This dissertation examines how caregiving for an elderly parent affects an adult child's labor supply and wages. In the first chapter (co-authored with Courtney H. Van Houtven and Norma B. Coe) we identify the relationship between informal care and labor force participation in the United States, both on the intensive and extensive margins, and examine wage effects. We control for time-invariant individual heterogeneity; rule out or control for endogeneity; examine effects for men and women separately; and analyze heterogeneous effects by task and intensity. We find modest decreases--1.4-2.4 percentage points--in the likelihood of working for caregivers providing personal care. Male and female chore caregivers, meanwhile, are more likely to retire. For female care providers who remain working, we find evidence that they decrease work by 3-10 hours per week and face a 2.3-2.6 percent wage penalty. We find little effect of caregiving on working men's hours or wages except for a wage premium for male intensive caregivers. In the second chapter I formulate and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of elder parent care and work to analyze how caregiving affects a woman's current and future labor force participation and wages. Intertemporal tradeoffs, such as decreased future earning capacity due to a current reduction in labor market work, are central to the decision to provide care. The existing literature, however, overlooks such long-term considerations. I depart from the previous literature by modeling caregiving and work decisions in an explicitly intertemporal framework. The model incorporates dynamic elements such as the health of the elderly parent, human capital accumulation and job offer availability. I estimate the model on a sample of women from the Health and Retirement Study by efficient method of moments. The estimates indicate that intertemporal tradeoffs matter considerably. In particular, women face low probabilities of returning to work or increasing work hours after a caregiving spell. Using the estimates, I simulate several government sponsored elder care policy experiments: a longer unpaid leave than currently available under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; a paid work leave; and a caregiver allowance. The leaves encourage more work among intensive care providers since they guarantee a woman can return to her job, while the caregiver allowance discourages work. A comparison of the welfare gains generated by the policies shows that half the value of the paid leave can be achieved with the unpaid leave, and the caregiver allowance generates gains comparable to the unpaid leave
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
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Carneiro, Francisco Galrao. "Labour market institutions, insider power and informal employment in Brazilian wage determination : 1980-1993." Thesis, University of Kent, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308838.
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Olsson, Annika. "The Hidden Side of Enterprise : A Study of the Motivations Behind Informal Self Employment." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126026.
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This investigation aims to explore the motivating factors behind the decision to engage in informal self-employment within ethnic economies. Through a series of semistructured qualitative interviews with Latin American immigrant women participating in informal self-employment in Stockholm, this study focuses on the ways in which agency and structure can influence economic decisions. Using the theory of mixedembeddedness, the results show that participating in informal self-employment can be understood as both a product of capitalizing on available social and ethnic resources, as well as the outcome of limited opportunities in traditional labour markets. While social and ethnic networks facilitate informal exchanges and provide an environment in which alternative employment opportunities become available, the decision to start an informal enterprise correlates with a lack of other opportunities, due to factors such as discrimination, a lack of language skills, limited access to start-up capital and a complex institutional context for small-scale entrepreneurs.
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Hormel, Leontina Marie. "Gender and informal work arrangements in post-Soviet Komsomolsk, Ukraine /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136419.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 286-304). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Thoene, Ulf V. "Social protection and labour law : regulatory approaches to the informal employment sector in Latin America." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57756/.
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The phenomena of high and persistent levels of informal employment and informal entrepreneurial activity have been among the most pressing features undermining the development of participatory socio-economic and political institutions in Latin America over the past decades. The informal sector does not exist separately from the formal economy. Although some individuals profit from shirking regulation such as tax payments, others are denied their basic rights as citizens. Many policy initiatives that set out to enable an increasing share of the region’s population to enjoy protected workplace conditions, access the social protective systems and nurture productive firms have had negligible or even detrimental effects. This research thesis argues that in order to understand the complex mechanics of informal labour in Latin America, a wide analytical perspective must be adopted, so that various interconnected developmental policy issues such as citizenship, state capacity, the political economy of the region, the design structure and the coverage of the contributory social protection regime, the quality of political participation, access to the legal system, and education must be examined with respect to their impact on social and labour rights. Employing the analytical lens of institutionalist regulatory theory and adopting central insights from Sen’s Capability Approach allow for the identification of path-dependent patterns in Latin American labour law and social polices, a reassessment of the role of the state as a regulatory actor, and the crucial importance of lifting the quality of employment and social services delivery. That approach allows this research dissertation to move beyond the traditional discourses that advocate either state regulation in the areas of social and labour legislation coupled with enforcement mechanisms, or alternatively deregulatory policies that place their faith in market forces as the ultimate formula to approach a societal issue that must actually be tackled from several vantage points. Fieldwork was carried out in Colombia in order to enrich this research with data obtained from interviews, participant observation and library visits.
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Tan, Emrullah. "The impact of human capital and formal/informal networks on graduate employment in the UK." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20791.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the important factors that affect graduate employment such as human capital, social capital and university career services. It focuses on the graduate labour market in the UK and uses mixed methods. While quantitative data derive from a survey, qualitative data come from interviews and secondary sources in a case study. The survey includes 947 university graduates and qualitative data consist of 8 interviews, internal and external reports. The findings show that the level of human capital and social capital affect the way graduates find a job and the use of social capital in job searches varies by ethnicity, age and academic level. However, gender and academic discipline do not affect the use of social capital in the UK graduate labour market. Moreover, the study shows that university career services can play an important role in job searches. Overall, however, direct application and online career services are two most widely used methods to find a job. The originality of the research is twofold. Firstly, it illustrates the relationship between two important components in graduates’ job search processes: human capital and social capital. Secondly, it examines the role of an institution: university career services and displays the importance of institutional approaches in building a bridge between students and employers.
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O'Sullivan, Amy K. "Caregivers to the elderly with dementia informal care provided, employment choices, and formal care arranged /." Available to US Hopkins community, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/dlnow/3068193.
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Knight, Teagan. "A Nuanced Look at Gender Interactions on Informal Employment and Income in Argentina and Uruguay." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2191.
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There are many existing studies characterizing the informal sector in Latin America, but the literature fails to fully examine the interactions between gender and disadvantaging factors on the probability of informal employment and its returns to wage. This analysis uses survey data from Argentina (2001) and Uruguay (2006) to examine the heterogeneous effects of number of children under 5, education, minority status, and migrant status on male and female informal employment and income. Being female interacts with number of children under 5 to create no effect on probability of informal employment, in contrast to a significant negative effect for men. Education has a greater negative effect on probability of informal work for females, while minority status and migrant status have a greater positive effect on the probability of being employed informally for females. Additionally, working informally is associated with a negative effect on wage for both females and males, but this effect is less for females. Number of children under 5 also negatively affects female wages, while there is no such effect for men.
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Ruiz, Contreras Marisol E. 1979. "Empleo informal y desigualdades en salud en Chile : un enfoque de investigación integrado." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/664849.
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Esta tesis tiene como objetivo principal comprender la relación entre el empleo informal y las desigualdades en salud en Chile desde una perspectiva integral. Considerando un abordaje abductivo que incorpora el enfoque de una metodología mixta, se han realizado cuatro artículos que combinan distintas perspectivas metodológicas: revisión bibliográfica, metodología cualitativa y metodología cuantitativa epidemiológica.
A partir de un desarrollo conceptual y empírico se obtuvo una definición original de empleo informal pertinente para Chile, en el marco del estudio de las desigualdades en salud. Así, se categorizó a la población trabajadora en función de su formalidad o informalidad en el empleo, pudiendo constatarse que, en general, los empleos informales están relacionados con un peor estado de salud de las personas. Los grupos más desfavorecidos pertenecen a la población trabajadora dependiente informal. Los mecanismos que inciden en esa relación se desprenden de las condiciones de vida (según dos dimensiones: incertidumbre y recursos materiales) y de las condiciones de trabajo (según tres dimensiones: riesgos psicosociales, seguridad en el trabajo, disponibilidad de tiempos e intensificación del trabajo). También se identificaron factores moderadores que disminuyen los efectos de la informalidad sobre las desigualdades en salud. El impacto del empleo informal también puede variar de acuerdo a los ejes de desigualdad, como el género.This thesis aims to understand the relationship between informal employment and health inequalities in Chile from a comprehensive perspective. By considering an abductive approach that includes mixed methodology, four papers have been developed combining: literature review, qualitative methodology and epidemiological quantitative methodology. Within the framework of social determinants of inequalities in health and based on a conceptual and empirical work, a new typology of informal employment, especially relevant to the Chilean context, was obtained. For this, the working population was categorized according to its formality or informality in employment, finding that, in general, informality is associated with poorer health status. The most disadvantaged groups of workers are informal dependent employees. The mechanisms that appear to be affecting this relationship are derived from their living conditions (according to two dimensions: uncertainty and material resources) and working conditions (according to three dimensions: psychosocial risks, safety at work, and intensification of working times). Some moderating factors that may reduce the negative effects of employment informality in health and health inequalities were also identified. The impact of informal employment may also vary according to the axes of inequality, such as gender, and the intersectionality among them.
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Ustek, Funda. "Invisibility, struggle and visibility : women workers' strategies of survival in the informal sector." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:643e1d6f-6c32-4ae6-ac75-221d9dcb1b89.
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Across the world, women constitute the bottom segments of the informal labour market hierarchy, and the story is no different for Turkish women, except they are further constrained by a patriarchal family culture and corporatist welfare state structure which favours high-skilled workers in full-time employment. A reading of the literature on the reasons for participating in the informal sector suggested that workers either end up in the informal sector as a result of structural factors, such as high unemployment, horizontal and vertical labour market discrimination and limited job opportunities for the low-skilled and low-educated, or they actively chose to participate in the labour market to seize the opportunities it provides, such as evading tax and/or bureaucratic costs, or testing out business ideas. However, this dichotomous understanding provided little scope, if any, to understand why women also entered the informal sector, in ever growing numbers and what the gender-specific constraints and opportunities in the informal sector are. Against this background, this thesis aims to show that this dichotomous theorisation of the informal sector is an exaggeration of reality, and that women workers position presents a middle ground, in which they recognise the constraints on their ability to improve their lives but they are also not powerless. Hence, by focusing on the variety of survival strategies used by women workers in the informal sector, the thesis attempts to show the choice among these strategies, including the conditions in which these strategies can be adopted and the barriers to do so.
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Tondini, Alessandro. "Cash transfers, employment and informality in South Africa." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01E014/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur les effets de transferts monétaires sur l’emploi dans le marché du travail sud-africain, un marché fortement segmenté entre secteur formel et informel. Le premier et principal chapitre montre qu’un programme de transferts monétaires inconditionnels destinés aux mères a eu des effets positifs durables sur la qualité de leurs emplois. Sur le long terme, les mères bénéficiaires du transfert sont plus susceptibles d’être employées dans le secteur formel. C’est la conséquence de changements dans la façon dont les mères traitées cherchent un emploi. En leur donnant la possibilité de rester au chômage pendant plus longtemps, le programme de transferts inconditionnels leur permet de viser des emplois de meilleure qualité. Le deuxième chapitre étudie les effets sur l’emploi d’une réforme du système public de retraites en Afrique du Sud, qui est non-contributif et soumis à conditions de ressources. Cette réforme a abaissé l’âge de la retraite de 65 à 60 ans pour les hommes. Elle a entraîné une forte diminution du taux d’activité des travailleurs informels, qui cessent de travailler lorsqu’ils atteignent 60 ans et deviennent éligibles à la pension de retraite non-contributive. Au contraire, les travailleurs du secteur formel ne quittent pas leur emploi et ne se tournent pas vers le secteur informel pour avoir droit à la pension de retraite. Enfin, cette thèse aborde la question du faible nombre de travailleurs indépendants en Afrique du Sud. Le dernier chapitre montre que les Sud-Africains ne travaillent pas plus à leur compte en réponse à des transferts monétaires. Cela indique que les contraintes de liquidité ne sont pas la principale raison du manque de travailleurs indépendants en Afrique du Sud. Cette faible présence de travailleurs indépendants a probablement des racines historiques liées à l’apartheid. Ce troisième chapitre examine les implications potentielles de cette explication, ainsi que les pistes de recherches futures possibles pour une compréhension plus fine de ce phénomèneThis dissertation studies the employment effects of cash transfers in a segmented labor market. The first and main chapter shows that an unconditional cash transfer program targeted at mothers has lasting positive impacts on job quality. Five years after having received the cash transfer, treated mothers are more likely to be employed in the formal sector. This appears to be the result of changes in the way recipients search for a job, as treated mothers are unemployed for longer and target better jobs. The second chapter shows the employment effects of a reform in the means-tested, non-contributory pension system of South Africa, which lowered the age of retirement from 65 to 60 for men. The reform caused a large extensive-margin response, as informal workers stop working when they become eligible to the pension. Instead, formal workers do not quit their jobs nor switch to the informal sector to become eligible to the pension. Lastly, this dissertation discusses the lack of self-employment in South Africa. Building on the results of the first two chapters, the last chapter shows that South Africans do not increase entry to self-employment as a result of cash transfers. This indicates that liquidity constraints are not the main reason for the lack of self-employment in South Africa, which is likely to have historical roots stemming from Apartheid. The chapter discusses evidence and potential policy implications of this explanation, alongside possible avenues for future research on this phenomenon
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Liang, Zhe. "An investigation in China on employment change between formal and informal sector : patterns, perceptions and achievements." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49443/.
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The goal of this thesis is to study and understand the informal employment in China. With the rapid growth of informal employment, this thesis challenged the conventional view of informal sector that it is a hub for the poor who need work but cannot find employment in the formal sector. It analysed informal sector employment in China. It focused on three aspects: (1) the pattern and determinants of what constitutes employees, casual workers and employers, (2) the reasons for employment change between the formal and informal sectors, and (3) remuneration differences between formal sector employees and informal sector self-employed workers/employers. This analysis used CHIPs data from 2008, 2009, and 2014. The findings suggest that informal employment is a hub for the more vulnerable who are less able to compete, such as women, less educated, not healthy and disabled. However, it not necessarily applied to self-employed and small business owners. They are competitive with longer working experience and financial capital to start up own businesses. Running one’s own business can provide benefits in terms of job flexibility to accommodate the need to take care of children or elderly relatives. The findings also suggested that labour force engaged in the informal sector are more likely to be induced by personal career pursuing, rather than enforced unemployment. Finally, we have find that changing jobs from formal employment to either self-employment or entrepreneurship can increase monthly disposable income. The results found in this study contribute to the existing literature on China’s labour markets. We comprehensively dissected employment status by recognizing casual workers who either have no contract or a temporary contract under one year in length, which was neglected by the authorities and researchers. It has contributed to a richer understanding of employment status, where informal sector self-employed workers and employers are better off compared to formal employees. Indeed, casual workers have the worst working conditions when considering the number of hours worked and social protections received. These findings contribute to the existing literature on the informal sector as well as provide a comprehensive understanding of China’s labour market that the government can use when considering the establishment of new policies.
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Silva, Anderson Lincoln Vital da. "Cidade e trabalho autônomo: um estudo sobre a percepção dos mototaxistas da cidade de Manaus/Am." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2015. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/4702.
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This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of motorcycle taxi drivers in the city of Manaus - AM on environmental health and the risks of their continued exposure to environmental elements. The research sought to describe the socioeconomic profile of these workers enabling discuss the relationship between town and work while conditioning the income and working conditions and also highlights the subjectivities in relation to environmental health through daily activities. The motorcycle taxi drivers express their perceptions of environmental risks and psychosocial health relating to the performance of its functions and raise environmental protection measures that these workers consider necessary. The interviewed were workers linked to the Cooperative of Manaus City motorcycle taxi drivers with at least two years of qualification in the respective category. Information was obtained from semi-structured interview that was applied to 25 workers (all men) in their operations bases (standby local users). Information were analyzed according to the content analysis technique proposed by Bardin (1997). The results show that participants are young adults, mostly in the age group 20-40 years old, completed high school, single, however they have children. About working hours, 64% of these, has a journey of up to twelve hours a day, as a salary of approximately R$ 2,000.00 monthly, and despite the legal requirement of their contribution to the INSS, only 20% of them make the contribution. To exercise the profession, they have to have a list of equipment required by law, but usually the only thing they have is the helmet; this increases the risk of their activity, not only for themselves and also the lives of their passengers, because they do prohibited maneuvers to save time. Due to their work conditions, streets, traffic, are exposed to an extensive working hours, alternating climate, fatigue and violence on traffic. So, despite recognizing the advantages of self-employment (freedom of hierarchical authority, daily financial gain, low investment on your motorcycle), they do not indicate this profession for their children. However, they realize that “mototaxismo” activity is a consequence of socioeconomic status because of unemployment, low education, and also the low investment to acquire the motorcycle; leading to many people to became motorcycle taxi drivers to provide for themselves, despite the risks inherent in it.
O presente estudo teve por objetivo investigar as percepções dos mototaxistas na cidade de Manaus-AM em relação à saúde ambiental e aos riscos a partir do seu trabalho de exposição constante às intempéries ambientais. A pesquisa buscou delinear o perfil socioeconômico desses trabalhadores, possibilitando discutir a relação cidade e trabalho, enquanto condicionantes à renda e condições laborais além de evidenciar as subjetivações em relação à saúde ambiental a partir das atividades cotidianas. De modo especial, os mototaxistas expressam suas percepções sobre riscos ambientais e saúde psicossocial relacionando ao desempenho de suas funções, e suscitam medidas de proteção socioambiental que esses trabalhadores consideram necessárias. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram trabalhadores vinculados à Cooperativa dos Mototaxistas da Cidade de Manaus com no mínimo dois anos de habilitação na respectiva categoria. Os dados foram obtidos a partir de entrevista semiestruturada que foi aplicada a 25 trabalhadores (todos homens) em suas bases de atuação (locais de espera dos usuários). Os dados foram analisados segundo a técnica da análise de conteúdo proposta por Bardin (1997). Os resultados obtidos demonstram que os participantes são adultos jovens, em sua maioria, na faixa etária de 20 a 40 anos de idade, com ensino médio completo, solteiros, porém com filhos. Quanto à jornada de trabalho, 64% destes têm uma jornada de até doze horas diárias, para obter um ganho na faixa de R$ 2.000,00 mensais, e apesar da exigência legal de sua contribuição para o INSS, apenas 20% destes o fazem. No exercício de sua profissão, são exigidos equipamentos obrigatórios, porém o único que todos eles possuem é o capacete; o que aumenta o risco de sua atividade, não somente para si e seus passageiros, pois realizam manobras arriscadas no trânsito para ganhar tempo. Devido às condições de seu trabalho, as ruas e o trânsito, são expostos a uma extensa jornada de trabalho, alternância climática, fadiga e violência do trânsito. Por isso, apesar de reconhecerem as vantagens do trabalho autônomo (liberdade de autoridade hierárquica, ganho financeiro diário, baixo investimento em sua motocicleta), não indicariam esta profissão para seus filhos. Deste modo, percebem que a atividade do mototaxismo é consequência da situação socioeconômica marcada pelo desemprego, baixa escolaridade, aliada ao baixo investimento para aquisição da motocicleta; a qual levou a vislumbrarem nesta profissão o meio para sustento próprio, apesar dos riscos inerentes a ela.
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Mumtaz, Mehr. "Resettled: How Refugees Experience Employment and Unemployment in the U.S." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707322/.
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Research on immigration in the United States has commonly studied the employment experiences of refugees. Few studies on refugees have focused on both, refugees' employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. This article draws on twenty in-depth interviews with refugees, along with ethnographic observation at a local refugee resettlement agency, to investigate how refugees make sense of their employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. I find that refugee men and women experience different employment trajectories in the United States, which are shaped by gender inequality in the public and domestic spheres. I further find that refugees' navigation with work in the United Stated influences their unemployment experiences and work in the informal sector. My study extends previous literature on refugee incorporation by conceptualizing refugees' employment as a gendered process, which includes periods of formal paid work, informal paid work, and unemployment in the United States.
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Melo, Francisco Carlos Nogueira. "An analysis on the impact of simple income generation and employment of enterprises in the informal sector." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2010. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5341.
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nÃo hÃThis paper has as objective to investigate the effects of Simples Federal in the generation of employment and income of the informal sector enterprises. For that purpose we used the database from ECINF 2003, and were introduced two models: one to solve the problem of income, know how it is generated, which factors were arranged in the database and had relevance to this issue. The result was positive, indicating that as an expansionary fiscal policy, the Simples was successful, increasing the income of micro entrepreneurs. To the employment was set up a similar model, and the result was again positive, which strengthens the use of Simples and its facilitator framework as a tool for collecting tax. We are waiting for the next series, so we can capture even more clearly the effects of Simples as it has already become crowded between small firms that fit this profile.
A presente dissertaÃÃo tem como motivaÃÃo investigar os efeitos do Simples Federal na geraÃÃo de emprego e renda dos empreendimentos do setor informal. Para tal fim foi utilizada a base de dados da ECINF 2003, e foram introduzidos dois modelos: um para equacionar o problema da renda, saber de que forma ela à gerada, quais os fatores que eram dispostos na base de dados e que apresentavam relevÃncia a esta questÃo. O resultado foi positivo, indicando que como polÃtica fiscal expansionista, o Simples obteve Ãxito, aumentando a renda dos microempreendedores. Para o emprego, foi montado um modelo anÃlogo, e o resultado foi mais uma vez positivo o que fortalece a utilizaÃÃo do Simples e de seu arcabouÃo facilitador para a arrecadaÃÃo como ferramenta tributÃria. Ficamos, entÃo, no aguardo das prÃximas sÃries para que possamos capturar com mais clareza ainda os efeitos do Simples à medida que este tenha jà se tornado massificado entre as microempresas que se encaixam neste perfil.
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Ahlinder, Isak. "The impact of labor market insecurity on mental health among immigrants in Europe." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-139991.
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The impact of labor market insecurity on immigrants’ mental health is understudied. This current study investigated whether labor market insecurity, as measured by different employment arrangements, has detrimental impact on immigrants’ depression, and if so, how it compares to the role of unemployment. Furthermore, this study investigated whether labor market insecurity had more detrimental impact on immigrants than non-immigrants. To do so, data from seventh wave of European Social Survey (2014/2015) was divided into three separate immigrant groups; first-generation immigrants, second-generation immigrants and non-immigrants. The results shows that labor market insecurity among immigrants had detrimental impact on mental health. The effects were not restricted to the first- generation immigrants’ mental health, they could also be observed in the second-generation immigrants and among non-immigrants. The results presented in this thesis show that not only unemployment, but also insecure employment arrangement have negative impact on mental health, both among immigrants and non-immigrants.
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Ibrahim, Sabir M. "Assessing the impact of micro-lending programmes in the informal sector in Cape Town. A case study, The Nations Trust Organization." University of the Western Cape, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7810.
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)The promotion of widespread entrepreneurship through the setting up of small and medium sized enterprises (SMMEs ) is crucial for the transformation to a market economy and the democratisation of society in \the new South Africa. SMMEs are recognized as an engine of economic \ \growth and a source of sustainable development. Within this sector micro , 1nd small enterprises are of special importance because they are considered as the cradle of entrepreneurship, particularly in environments facing high ketllPIQYII'1:en!and poverty,. as j!) the case ~~.South Africg,
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Damane, Moeti. "The implications of rural-urban migration on employment and household income with particular reference to Lesotho." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002737.
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The research investigates the impact of internal rural - urban migration III Lesotho on household income and employment. Using data gathered from the 2002/03 household survey, the 2006 nationwide census and a questionnaire on rural - urban migration in Lesotho administered to 500 respondents in Maseru and Leribe, we estimate a logit model of the probability of employment in Lesotho in 2008 given a set of independent variables. The independent variables are respondent's work experience; years of education completed; employment status in 2004; employment status in 2008; gender; job skill level; place of residence in 2004 and a categorical variable that measures whether or not the respondent is a rural - urban migrant. The results suggest that migration and work experience have no significant impact on an individual's likelihood of being employed in the country's formal sector. Also, it was found that the higher the level of education an individual has, the less likely are their chances of employment in the country's formal sector because of the lack of formal jobs in the urban areas. Over 50% of Lesotho's workforce employed in the urban areas was discovered to work in the informal sector. The study concludes that there is a lack of jobs in Lesotho's urban formal sector that results in a thriving informal sector. The advantages of informal sector jobs to the rural - urban migrant include an increase in their standard of living as well as that of their family members left behind in the rural areas but the disadvantages include low levels of investor confidence that lead to a decrease in overall economic development and growth in the country.
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Kusi-Mensah, Rita. "A Gendered Analysis of Formal Vocational Education, Skills Development, and Self-employment in Accra, Ghana: Exploring enterprise development and outcomes of women’s self-employment in the feminized trades." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17344.
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This research is an exploration of the extent to which formal vocational education in the domestic trades (catering and dressmaking) for women in Ghana leads to sustainable self-employment in the urban informal sector (UIS) in Accra.
The research adopts a qualitative methodological approach using interpretive analysis to gain an in-depth understanding of the primary data collected. A case study approach is adopted to articulate emerging themes in a manner that is comprehensive and intelligible.
Two conceptual frameworks are employed: firstly, the research builds on the work of McCauley et al (1995), to ascertain the developmental dimensions of VE catering job roles that provide graduates with the capabilities and opportunities needed for sustainable self-employment. Secondly, the concept of Gender Role Socialization is drawn on to ascertain the gender-specific factors that influence women’s engagement in VE and constrain women’s MSE growth.
The research identified three key factors which affect VE graduates gaining employment and prospects for sustainable self-employment. They are: 1) The VE programme pursued and the presence or absence of a transformative environment of skill utilization. 2) The attainment of post-graduation specialist training or advanced certification which provide VE graduates with enhanced prospects for employment. 3) Post-graduation quality workplace development experience (QWDE). Gender-specific factors include traditional Ghanaian expectations of “womanhood”, and the streaming of women towards occupational paths that maintain their gendered role obligations within the household and family. These include ‘domestic provisioning’; male prerogative as principal decision-maker in the household; weak inheritance rights and access to property.
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López, Ruiz María 1982. "Empleo informal y salud en Centroamérica : una aproximación desde las desigualdades de género." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/396613.
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El empleo informal es un importante pero poco estudiado determinante social de la salud que afecta a un gran número de personas trabajadoras alrededor del mundo. Las mujeres constituyen una parte importante de la economía informal y, entre otras razones, han utilizado este tipo de empleo como forma de insertarse en el mercado laboral debido a las mejores posibilidades para combinar el empleo y el trabajo doméstico y de cuidados no remunerado. El objetivo principal de esta tesis ha sido valorar la relación entre el estado de salud y la informalidad o formalidad del empleo entre la población trabajadora no agrícola centroamericana.
A través de dos estudios empíricos realizados con la I Encuesta Centroamericana de Condiciones de Trabajo y Salud de 2011 y sobre una muestra de 8.823 personas trabajadoras no agrícolas, hemos obtenido los siguientes resultados principales. Tanto mujeres como hombres con empleos informales tuvieron peor estado de salud en comparación con el perfil más formal de empleo (personas asalariadas con cobertura a la seguridad social y contrato escrito). La falta de cobertura a la seguridad social es un elemento clave del empleo informal, y el predictor más fuerte de mala salud. Asimismo, la asociación entre mal estado de salud y la combinación de empleo y responsabilidades de cuidados se limitó básicamente a las mujeres con empleos informales. Estos resultados muestran cómo el empleo informal no agrícola es un factor significativo en las desigualdades en salud entre la población trabajadora centroamericana. Además, también ponen en evidencia desigualdades en salud en relación con el trabajo no remunerado de cuidados, que depende de la interacción entre el género y el empleo informal. Por tanto, dada la estrecha relación entre las esferas del mercado laboral y de los cuidados, para reducir todas las desigualdades encontradas sería necesario implementar políticas enfocadas a ambas esferas.Informal employment is an important but seldom studied social determinant of health, affecting a large number of workers around the world. Women make up a major portion of the informal economy and they have used such employment as a way to enter the labor market because of the greater possibilities of combining employment and unpaid domestic and care work, among other reasons,. The main objective of this dissertation has been to assess the relationship between health status and different patterns of informal and formal employment among non-agricultural workers in Central America. Through two empirical studies conducted with the I Central American Survey of Working Conditions and Health of 2011 and on a sample of 8,823 non-agricultural workers, we have obtained the following main results. Both women and men in informal employment had poorer health compared to the most formal employment profile (employees covered by social security and a written contract). A lack of social security coverage is a key issue of informal employment and the strongest predictor of poor health status. Furthermore, the association between poor health and the combination of employment and care responsibilities is basically limited to women in informal employment. These results show that informal employment is a significant factor in social health inequalities among Central American non-agricultural workers. In addition, they also reveal health inequalities related to unpaid care work, which depends on the interaction between gender and informal employment. Therefore, and given the close relationship between the spheres of labor market and care, the implementation of polices focused on both spheres would be needed to act in order to reduce the inequalities found.
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Correa, Renata Silveira. "O emprego sem carteira de trabalho no Brasil urbano." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285688.
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Orientador: Paulo Eduardo de Andrade BaltarDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: Esta dissertação trata de uma das formas de informalidade do trabalho no Brasil: o emprego sem carteira de trabalho assinada. Seu objetivo é examinar o fenômeno da reprodução de empregos ilegais no país, que tem resistido a diminuir mesmo em situações de maior crescimento econômico e de tendência à formalização dos empregos. O estudo faz uma análise das principais mudanças na organização do trabalho e seus impactos sobre o emprego assalariado a partir da abertura da economia na década de 1990, bem como dos principais aspectos da evolução da economia e do mercado de trabalho após a mudança na orientação da política econômica em 1999. Para o período 2002-2008, é examinada em detalhe a evolução do emprego sem carteira e, com base nas especificidades ocupacionais, setoriais e regionais, são identificados os segmentos responsáveis pela reprodução do assalariamento ilegal. Embora o ritmo de expansão do emprego sem carteira tenha reduzido nos anos de maior crescimento econômico e de maior fiscalização do poder público desde 2000, ainda não se pode afirmar que houve uma reversão da utilização do emprego ilegal no país
Abstract: This dissertation deals with one of the forms of informal work in Brazil: the waged employment without a formal contract. Its goal is to examine the phenomenon of informal employment propagation nationwide, that has resisted to retreat even in higher economic climate and bias toward registered employees. It provides an analysis of the major changes in work organization and its impact on waged employment from the internationalization of the economy in the 1990s, as well as the evolution of the economy and the labor market after the shift in economic policy occurred in 1999. For the ages 2002-2008 is examined in detail the evolution of informal waged employment and are identified the segments responsible for the informal employment propagation, based on occupational, sectorial and regional peculiarities. Although the expansion rhythm of informal waged employment has reduced in the higher economic growth and greater public control since 2000, it can not be said that there was a reversal of the use of informal waged employment in Brasil
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Oldridge, Louise. "An examination of the care and career experiences of mid-life women who combine formal employment and informal caring of dependent adults." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/17522.
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This thesis is based on the care and career experiences of mid-life (ages 45 - 65) women engaging in paid employment alongside informal caring of dependent adults. It was carried out within the context of a growing 'social care crisis' in the wake of depleting social and healthcare resources and government policies encouraging people to 'care for their own', alongside policies to boost the employment of older workers. Calendar interviews with 30 mid-life women with experience of caring and paid employment in Leicester and Leicestershire were conducted between June and December 2016. This research took place within the interpretive paradigm, with the aim of hearing from women about their experiences in their own voices. The study draws upon three intersecting areas of literature and theory around concepts of work, careers and caring, to make sense of the women's experiences. As a result, the study reveals key themes: the negative and positive impacts of caring on formal career trajectories; changing perspectives on concepts of work and the notion of care as 'work'; understandings of career, and the emergence of care as an 'unexpected career', which helps in conceptualising women's careers. The study contributes empirically by generating further knowledge and understanding of caring and career, particularly as there are limited existing qualitative studies in this area. Through analysis of the careers of participants, a typology of women's formal careers affected by caring and a typology of informal caring careers were developed, providing frameworks for the study of women's careers. The thesis identifies the notion of women's polymorphic careers, demonstrated through the development of a new model of women's formal and informal caring careers. It also offers recommendations for both policy and practice. This includes greater support from local and national government, provision of information and training to carers. It is also important for workplaces to understand the moral and business case for supporting working carers, having clear policies which are structured, with consistent support but also flexible enough to be personalised to individual circumstances. Furthermore, line managers should be given training, support and time to engage with their employees and to understand all aspects of their development. Finally, the thesis concludes with areas for possible future research incorporating further longitudinal study, different participant groups, and applying the model to different contexts.
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Urzi, Domenica. "Migrant workers, temporary labour and employment in Southern Europe : a case study on migrants working in the agricultural informal economy of Sicily." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28737/.
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This thesis explores the migratory experience mainly of Tunisian and Romanian workers in the agricultural informal economy of Sicily (Italy), based on observation and 30 semi-structured interviews. Starting from the reasons behind the decision to migrate and the expectations towards their migratory experience, this thesis argues that family’s needs are central motivational factors for the majority of the people who were part of my study and that the migratory experience tends to transform conventional gendering and parenting roles. The thesis also investigates the strategies used by Tunisian and Romanian migrants to enter the Italian territory and to be recruited in the agricultural sector. My data suggested that social capital (or the lack of it) and social networks are essential resources to enter the Italian territory and its labour market and to remain active within it. Furthermore, the thesis claims that the interaction between the widespread informal employment in Southern Europe and discriminating forms of citizenship creates a paradoxical situation where newly European Romanian workers have more opportunity to negotiate with employers within the informal economy, whereas non-European people must seek contractual work within the formal labour market to justify their immigration status, making them more vulnerable to exploitation by deceitful employers. For this reason an imaginary continuum line has been developed in the last two chapters of the thesis to highlight how discriminatory citizenship status interacts with the informal labour economy of the agricultural sector of Sicily, exacerbating unequal power relations and labour exploitation. By stretching the concept of the ‘camp’ developed by Agamben (1998), the informal economy will be considered as a dimension where people’s rights are severely undermined. The thesis nonetheless asserts that recognition of human dignity and human rights offer a form of utopian critique that might be considered positive as it stands outside the limitations of national forms of citizenship and points to more inclusive ideas of global citizenship.
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Hauenstein, Chloe R. "Policies for Employment Enhancement and Environmental Protection: The Integration of Waste Management Systems in Argentina and India." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/847.
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In many developing countries, a significant proportion of the population relies on work in the informal sector as a source of income. Some scholars have posed the possibility of integrating the informal sector into the formal sector, in an effort to improve the lives and livelihoods of workers and the productivity of a country’s economy. This paper examines potential steps that could allow for such integration by focusing on a sub-sector of the informal sector that has already begun the process of integration: the informal waste management sector. This paper compares the cities of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Pune, India in an attempt to explore their processes of integrating the informal waste sector into the formal waste management process.
By examining both scholarly works and primary government documents, this study demonstrates that both Buenos Aires and Pune have implemented a number of initiatives to develop laws and programs in order to integrate their informal waste management systems. Consequently, the municipal governments of these cities have been able to provide a more substantial livelihood for previously informal workers and have improved the sanitation of their cities. These findings imply that the governments of other cities with large informal waste sectors could utilize a similar framework to benefit both vulnerable populations and environmental practices.
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García, Gómez Pilar. "Health, informal care and labour market outcomes in Europe." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7376.
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Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura analizando los efectos causales que el estado de salud tiene sobre la participación laboral en la población en edad de trabajar. De este modo, analiza los efectos que un deterioro en el estado de salud tiene sobre la participación laboral del individuo, así como los efectos de proveer cuidados informales sobre la participación laboral femenina. El primer capítulo utiliza una aproximación empírica homogénea en nueve países europeos, lo que hace posible relacionar las diferencias encontradas con diferencias en el contexto institucional. El segundo capítulo analiza el papel que juega el estado de salud en las transiciones hacia y fuera del empleo. Los resultados muestran que el estado de salud general afecta simétricamente las entradas y salidas del empleo, mientras que cambios en el estado de salud mental sólo influyen el riesgo de abandonar el empleo. El tercer capítulo examina los efectos de varios tipos de cuidados informales en el comportamiento laboral femenino. Los resultados sugieren que los costes de oportunidad laborales aparecen en aquellas mujeres que conviven con la persona dependiente, al mismo tiempo que los efectos negativos surgen cuando se proveen cuidados informales por un período superior al año.This thesis aims to contribute to the literature with an attempt to identify the causal effects of health on labour market outcomes in the working-age population. I analyse the effects of the onset of a health shock on the individuals' labour market outcomes, and also the effects of caregiving on female labour participation. The first chapter uses a homogeneous empirical framework to estimate the first set of effects on nine European countries, which allows me to relate the empirical estimates to differences in social security arrangements across these countries. The second chapter analyses the role of health in exits out of and entries into employment and the results show that general health affects symmetrically entries into and exits out of employment, but changes in mental health status influence only the hazard of non-employment for the stock sample of workers. The third chapter examines the effects of various types of informal care on female labour behaviour and the results suggest the existence of labour opportunity costs for those women who live with the dependent person they care for, and the negative effects appear when caregiving for more than a year.
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Hoffmann, Bettina Elisabeth. "Competent and unaware of it : the development of 'tacit forms of key competencies' among adults in unpaid, informal learning situations outside formal employment." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2008. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/691/.
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This interpretive study focusses on women's and men's perceptions of their development of 'tacit forms of key competencies', and explores ways in which this learning experience, the development of 'tacit knowledge', takes place. All the research participants had taken, or were taking, time off paid work due to parenthood, caring responsibilities and/or being made redundant. The research combines biographical, ethnographical and phenomenological elements. Data are presented from in-depth, {socio)biographic interviews with 33 adults (25 women and 8 men), aged between 23 and 57 years, living in south east England.
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Santos, Anselmo Luis dos 1961. "Trabalho em pequenos negocios no Brasil : impactos da crise do final do seculo XX." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285498.
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Orientador: Carlos Alonso Barbosa de OliveiraTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: Esta tese tem como objeto de estudo a evolução da ocupação e das condições de trabalho em pequenos negócios no Brasil no período 1980-2005. O conjunto dos ocupados em pequenos negócios é aqui entendido como o universo que compreende os trabalhadores assalariados - com e sem carteira de trabalho assinada - e empregadores nas micro e pequenas empresas, os trabalhadores por conta própria, os empreendedores sem empregados e os trabalhadores sem remuneração. A hipótese considerada é que esse conjunto de trabalhadores ampliou de forma expressiva sua participação na estrutura ocupacional brasileira, processo que aprofundou a precariedade das condições de trabalho neste segmento e que expressa parcela expressiva da deterioração das condições e das relações de trabalho do conjunto da estrutura ocupacional brasileira, no período analisado. O desenvolvimento do trabalho mostrou que este processo ocorreu principalmente em função das reduzidas taxas de crescimento econômico, das profundas transformações estruturais pelas quais passou a economia brasileira nos anos 90 e pelas transformações ocorridas nas estruturas social, cultural e de consumo que continuaram transformando aspectos importantes do aparelho produtivo e da estrutura ocupacional, mesmo num contexto de reduzido crescimento econômico. Confirmando a hipótese considerada, o trabalho mostrou que o maior ritmo de expansão dos ocupados neste segmento e a deterioração das condições de trabalho ocorreu de forma mais acentuada no período 1994-99, de maiores transformações estruturais na economia brasileira e que, no conjunto do período, este processo expressa principalmente uma forte expansão do trabalho assalariado, com e sem carteira de trabalho e dos trabalhadores por conta própria ? com piores condições e relações de trabalho, rendimentos mais reduzidos e menor proteção em termos de direitos trabalhistas e sociais. Por fim, o trabalho trata das limitações das políticas públicas para as MPE, assim como de novas propostas de políticas de corte liberal, destacando a impossibilidade de superação do quadro de precariedade revelado, sem considerar um processo de crescimento econômico acelerado e sustentado
Abstract: This dissertation has the occupational evolution and the labor conditions in small enterprises in Brazil in the 1980-2005 period as the study object. The occupied in small business set is understood as the universe of the wage laborers in small and micro enterprises, self-employed, the entrepreneurs without employees, and the workers without pay. The hypothesis considered here is that this set of workers has widened his participation in a very expressive manner in the Brazilian occupational structure, what has deepened the worsening of the labor conditions and labor relations of the whole Brazilian occupational structure in the period studied. The development of this dissertation shown that this process happened most of all in consequence of the low rates of economic growth, of the deep structural changes of the Brazilian economy in the nineties and of the transformations that occurred in the social, cultural and consumption structures that continually changed the productive sector and the occupational structure, even in a context of very low economic growth rates. Confirming the hereby considered hypothesis, this dissertation shown that the biggest part of the occupation expansion in this sector and the worsening of the labor conditions occurred within the period of the 1994-1999, in which happened the most important structural transformations in Brazilian economy. In the whole period, this process was expressed mostly by a strong expansion of the wage labor in the formal and informal sector and by the self-employment ? with the worst labor conditions and labor relations, lowest pay and weaker social and labor protection and rights. At the end, this dissertation deals with the public policies limits for the small and micro enterprises as well the neoliberal political proposals, underlining the impossibility of the overcoming of this situation without considering a process of sustained and accelerated economic growth
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Patsyurko, Nataliya. "Circumventing the state : illegal labour migration from Ukraine as a strategy within the informal economy." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115615.
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This thesis examines labour migration as an outcome of the interaction between the state and the informal economy, by considering the trends of contemporary labour migration from Ukraine to Southern Europe. It contends that in both the sending and receiving countries, migration policies either disregard or severely limit labour migration, while their informal economies facilitate the development of migration. This basic contradiction sustains migration flows over time. The main argument of the thesis is that migration develops within the system of interacting informal economies. I demonstrate the embeddedness of migration in the informal economy by using the case of Ukrainian migration to Italy.The role of the informal economy in the development of migration is examined across several dimensions. First, I argue that the recent labour migration from Ukraine emerged as a strategy of the informal economy, continuing the previous strategies of cross-border trading and short-term migration to Central Europe. These economic practices were the innovative responses of the population to the decline of the state economy and to the absence of economic reforms. Migration developed in the space between the state and the market economy.
Second, the flows of labour migration were 'invisible' to states, and developed outside state control and regulation. This thesis demonstrates that the migration policies of the Ukrainian state disregarded the process of out-migration of Ukrainian citizens. Similarly, Italian immigration policies did not recognise the existing flows of labour migration. The informal economy of the receiving state resolved the contradiction between the economic demand for migrant workers and restrictive migration policies and enabled access to the receiving economy.
However, access to the receiving labour market through the informal economy contributed to the disadvantaged incorporation of migrants and prevented their integration into the receiving society. The analysis of economic incorporation demonstrates that the informal economy channelled Ukrainian migrants to the secondary labour market with low earnings, a lack of benefits, and no possibility of professional advancement. The mode of access to the receiving economy and the resulting illegality heavily influenced the position of Ukrainian migrants in the labour market.
Finally, the analysis of Ukrainian labour migration to Italy demonstrates that alternative migration-facilitating institutions were developed in the absence of the state recognition of labour migration. These institutions paralleled the institutions of the official labour markets and allowed migrants to implement income-generating projects. In addition, migration was facilitated by the supporting institutions of the receiving society, which counteracted the restrictive immigration laws and political controls on migration. The migration-supporting institutions were predicated on the strategies of circumventing state control which developed from participation in the informal economy of the sending country. Labour migration from the former Soviet Union would not be possible without these informal practices and the culture of avoiding state control in economic activities.
The proposed analysis answers the challenge posed by the recent Ukrainian labour migration to conventional theories on migration, whose approaches usually omit references to the meso-level of migration processes, and consider either the structural-economic or the micro- determinants of migration. This thesis presents the informal economy both as a structural factor which enables migration and as a characteristic of the migrant agency that facilitates it.
By doing that, the thesis also complements the literature on migration to Southern Europe and argues that migrations are not simply encouraged by the informal economies of the receiving countries, but they emerge from, and are facilitated by, the informal economies of the sending countries. To perpetuate migration migrants creatively use the resources of the informal economy in conjunction with strategies of circumventing the state. This argument holds for a number of ex-Soviet countries, which suffered severe economic crises during the disintegration of the state-controlled socialist economies, and consequently produced significant labour migrations to Western Europe.
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Abugattas-Abusada, Said. "Los costos sociales de la legislación laboral." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2015. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/123456789/1123.
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Busca demostrar como los altos costos de la legislación laboral operan de manera similar al control de precios, teniendo consecuencias bastante negativas para el mercado laboral y para los trabajadores. Algunos de los ejemplos que se presentan tienen como objetivo probar que, en ocasiones, una norma en favor de los trabajadores puede terminar afectando el mismo derecho que se intenta proteger.Tesis
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Souag, Ali. "Économie informelle et les politiques d’emploi en Algérie : quel impact ?" Thesis, Paris Est, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PESC0059/document.
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Cette thèse porte principalement sur l’impact des politiques d’emploi sur l’économie informelle en Algérie. Dans le premier chapitre, nous tentons de faire le point sur les problèmes de définitions et de mesures quantitatives de l’économie informelle en essayant d’établir un cadre d’analyse standardisé permettant de réduire les conflits méthodologiques. Dans le deuxième et le troisième chapitre, nous estimons le poids réel du secteur informel et de l’emploi informel sur le marché du travail. Nous décrivons aussi les personnes qui travaillent de manière informelle. Dans le quatrième chapitre nous étudions leurs motivations et les raisons d’être de ce type d’emploi. C'est-à-dire nous chercherons à savoir s’ils relèvent d’un processus d’exclusion sociale ou bien d’un choix délibéré. Nous nous interrogeons aussi sur l’hétérogénéité de ces emplois. Dans les deux derniers chapitres nous cherchons à savoir dans quelle mesure les politiques d’emploi en Algérie ont contribué à la réduction de l’économie informelle et le chômage en Algérie respectivement. À la lumière des résultats obtenus précédemment mais aussi sur la base d’autres expériences, nous testons des mesures de politique économique. Pour réaliser cette analyse, nous exploitons les micro-données des enquêtes emplois auprès des ménages menées par l’Office National des Statistiques (ONS) entre 1997 et 2013This thesis focuses on impact evaluation of employment policies on the informal economy in Algeria. In the first chapter, we look to definitions and quantitative measures of the informal economy. We try to establish a standardized framework of analysis to reduce methodological conflicts. In the second and third chapters, we estimate the weight of the informal sector and informal employment in the labor market. We also describe those who are working in the informal economy. In the fourth chapter, we study their motivations and the reasons for this type of jobs. We look whether they are involved in a process of social exclusion or make a deliberate choice. We also discuss the heterogeneity of these jobs. In the two last chapters we examine if the employment policies in Algeria have contributed to reduce informality and employment. In the light of our results but also based on other experiences, we test economic policy measures. To do this we use data bases from household employment surveys conducted by the National Office of Statistics (ONS) from 1997 to 2013
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Porthé, Victoria. "La precariedad laboral en inmigrantes en España y su relación con la salud: una aproximación cualitativa." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7155.
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El denominado proceso de "globalización" ha propiciado nuevos patrones de desarrollo en las relaciones económicas a nivel mundial, que no sólo se han traducido en una nueva organización del trabajo y cambios generales en la producción sino que, a su vez, han modificado las relaciones de poder entre el capital y el trabajo. Como consecuencia de esta profunda reorganización social y económica, la denominada "flexibilización" laboral se ha convertido en una de las características dominantes del mercado laboral que ha tenido diversos efectos negativos para los trabajadores en cuanto a su estabilidad, seguridad laboral, y pérdida de poder. En este contexto, surge la precariedad laboral que ha comportado profundos cambios en el empleo, transformando las relaciones de reproducción social y de las relaciones en el ámbito de la producción, acrecentando la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores. Al mismo tiempo, la emergencia de la precariedad laboral ha coincidido históricamente con el aumento de los flujos migratorios de carácter principalmente económico.La precariedad laboral no afecta de la misma manera al conjunto de la fuerza de trabajo sino que perjudica especialmente a ciertos grupos vulnerables, entre los que se encuentran los inmigrantes. Así, la precariedad está estrechamente relacionada con los ejes de la desigualdad, que permiten explicar cómo las desigualdades sociales se traducen en distintos niveles de salud. No obstante, existe escasa evidencia que permita entender, con la profundidad suficiente, la relación entre los factores estructurales que configuran la precariedad laboral y su relación con la salud de los trabajadores. Aún menor es la evidencia disponible que analice específicamente la situación de los trabajadores inmigrantes. Esta tesis se propone conocer las características y dimensiones de la precariedad laboral específicas de los trabajadores inmigrantes y analizar su relación con la salud y bienestar de los mismos. Para conseguirlo, propone una metodología cualitativa, con dos orientaciones en el análisis. En una primera parte, el método de análisis utilizado fue la inducción analítica, a partir del marco teórico desarrollado por Amable (2006) sobre la precariedad laboral en asalariados españoles.
La segunda parte del análisis es descriptiva e interpretativa siguiendo el método de la teoría fundamentada, utilizado para describir la relación de la precariedad con la salud y bienestar percibidos por los informantes. Los trabajadores inmigrantes caracterizan la precariedad laboral describiendo la elevada inestabilidad del empleo, escaso poder para negociar las condiciones de empleo, indefensión y una intensificación de la carga de trabajo. Perciben también, que sus ingresos son insuficientes para cubrir sus necesidades y que poseen escasos beneficios sociales que limitan su capacidad de ejercer derechos. Los trabajadores en situación irregular, comparten las características descritas de la precariedad, aunque perciben mayor indefensión y peores condiciones laborales. En la relación de la precariedad laboral con la salud, los informantes describieron no sólo problemas sobre su salud general (musculoesqueléticos, problemas alimentación, etc.) sino también problemas como la insatisfacción laboral, estrés, factores psicosociales, malas condiciones de vida y también hábitos poco saludables, como consumo de alcohol y medicamentos.
A partir de este estudio hemos observado que la principal diferencia entre el colectivo de trabajadores españoles y el de inmigrantes reside en la extensión de la precariedad laboral. Entre los inmigrantes, la precariedad se presenta en niveles muy altos o incluso extremos, que exceden el ámbito laboral e incluyen aspectos de precariedad social, relacionados a sus condiciones de vida, marginación y exclusión. En el caso de los trabajadores en situación irregular necesariamente entran en la precariedad lo que los ubica como un colectivo muy vulnerable.
Finalmente, si se considera que el trabajo es uno de los principales mecanismos de inserción en la sociedad, los inmigrantes que se hallan en situación de precariedad laboral podrían quedar expuestos a una inserción social igualmente precaria. Desde la perspectiva de Salud Pública es necesario considerar que aún y cuando la situación de la inmigración represente un impacto pequeño sobre la salud de los trabajadores, la magnitud de la inmigración a nivel mundial es muy elevada, por lo que el potencial impacto que ésta podría tener sobre la salud global de la población podría ser enorme.
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Julià, Pérez Mireia 1981. "Precarització de les condicions d'ocupació a la Unió Europea: Precarietat, informalitat, i associació amb la salut." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/406084.
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Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu principal descriure la precarització del mercat laboral tal com es manifesta en diferents tipus de contracte (permanent, temporal i informal) i explorar l’associació de la precarietat laboral amb la salut dels treballadors. A través de diferents metodologies s’han realitzat tres estudis quantitatius amb dades de diferents enquestes i dues revisions diferents de la literatura. Els resultats confirmen la precarització de les condicions d’ocupació com a conseqüència de les polítiques del mercat de treball i l’augment del poder dels empresaris. La precarietat laboral està present en tots els tipus de contracte estudiats, tant en els treballadors permanents com en els temporals i informals, i segueix un gradient entre elles. També s’ha demostrat que el treball informal, una de les condicions d’ocupació menys estudiades des del punt de vista de la salut pública, es troba present a la Unió Europea. Aquests treballadors tenen pitjors condicions de treball i nivells més elevats de precarietat laboral comparats amb els treballadors permanents i temporals; però això no es reflexa en un pitjor estat de salut. Els nostres resultats confirmen la importància d’estudiar la precarietat laboral mitjançant una mesura multidimensional. Incloure en els sistemes de vigilància epidemiològica la mesura tant de la precarietat laboral com del treball informal seria de gran importància per tal de constatar-ne l’evolució i permetre el disseny de polítiques públiques orientades a millorar la salut dels treballadors i reduir les desigualtats en salut existents entre ells.The main aim of this dissertation was to describe the precaritzation of the labour market as it manifests itself in different types of contract (permanent, temporary and informal) as a proxy of employment conditions and to explore the association of precarious employment with workers’ health. Adopting different methodologies, three quantitative studies were performed using data from different surveys as well as two different types of literature reviews. Results confirm the precaritzation of employment conditions as a consequence of the labour market policies and an increase of the employers’ power. Employment precariousness is present in all types of contract studied, both in permanent employees and in temporary and informal employees, and a gradient exists between them. It has also shown that informal employment, one of the least studied employment condition from a public health stand point, is present in the European Union. These workers have worse working conditions and higher levels of precarious employment compared with permanent and temporary workers; but this is not reflected as having worse health. Our results confirm the importance of studying precarious employment through multidimensional measure. Including both measures of precarious and informal employment in epidemiological surveillance systems is of great importance in order to verify their evolution and allow for the design of public policies oriented to improve workers’ health and reduce existing health inequalities among them.
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Mekherbeche, Ghalem. "Emploi et chômage en Algérie, évolution et transformaion de 1966 à 2014." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2012.
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Cette étude a pour objectif d’étudier l’emploi et le chômage, son évolution en Algérie de 1966 à 2014 ainsi que ses aspects sociodémographiques. L’étude du marché du travail algérien a montré que celui-ci a subi de profondes transformations à cause des événements démographiques et économiques qui ont jalonné le pays, tels que : l’expansion de l’emploi informel et féminin, le recul de l’emploi public et l’effondrement du secteur agricole. L’analyse des données des enquêtes emplois de l’ONS, montre l’impact de ces éléments sur les taux d’activité. Ces derniers ont connu une grande hausse durant les périodes de crise etparticulièrement dans les années 1990. Cette hausse était due, à la fois, à la croissance démographique et à la poussée de l’activité féminine. Pour le taux de chômage, il a atteint son niveau le plus bas en 1984. Cette baisse est imputée à la faible pression démographique sur le marché du travail comme à la politique économique suivie dans les années 1970. A partir de 1986, le niveau de chômage augmente et atteint un pic durant les années 1990. Cette hausse a été déclenchée par un ensemble de facteurs : l’arrivée en masse sur le marché du travail d’individus issus des générations du baby-boom, la baisse durable des prix des hydrocarbures , la crise politique et sécuritaire et l’arrivée d’un nombre croissant de femmes sur le marché du travail. De 2000 à 2013, le niveau de chômage tend à la baisse. En effet, la forte hausse des prix des hydrocarbures en cette période, a permis la création d’un volume important d’emplois non permanents. S’ajoute, à cela, la baisse de la pression démographique dans la même période. A partir de 2014, le niveau de chômage repart vers la hausse alors qu’en même temps les cours du prix du pétrole chutent.Cette thèse a également visé le marché de l’emploi à l’échelle locale. Ainsi, l’enquête menée dans la wilaya d’Oran a concerné cinq communes. L’exploitation des données de cette enquête a révélé une forte participation des femmes dans la vie active ; près de la moitié d’entre elles ont suivi un enseignement supérieur. Cela a influé sur le taux d’activité global qui est plus élevé que la moyenne nationale. Quant aux taux d’emploi, ils sont faibles dans les communes réputées pour leur structure industrielle et plus important dans les communes les plus agglomérées. S’agissant de l’âge moyen d’entrée dans le premier emploi, l’enquête a relevé que le niveau d’instruction joue un rôle déterminant dans la diminution de l’écart entre les hommes et les femmes: l’âge d’entrée dans un premier emploi chez les universitaires femmes et hommes est presque identique alors que pour le niveau d’instruction égal ou inférieur au moyen, les femmes entrent plus tardivement sur le marché de l’emploi par rapport aux hommes. En ce qui concerne les demandeurs d’emplois, les données de l’enquête ont abouti à un taux de chômage plus élevé que la moyenne nationale. Le niveau de chômage est plus élevé dans les communes réputées être le bassin d’emploi de la wilaya d’OranThis study aims to analyze employment, unemployment and their evolution in Algeria from 1966 to 2014 and their socio-demographic point of view. The study of the Algerian workforce has shown that there has been a profound transformation due to demographic and economic events which stand out as milestones such as: the expansion of informal work, women in the workforce, decreasing public sector employment and the collapse of agriculture. The analysis of studies by the ONS show the impact of these elements on the rate of activity. The latter has shown a large increase during periods of crisis and particularlyduring the 1990's.This demand was the result of the increase of population and the development of women in the workforce. Unemployment reached its lowest level in 1984. This reduction is due to low population demand and the political and economic situation in the 1970's. From 1986, unemployment increased and reached its peak in the 1990's. This rise was due to a number of factors: the arrival of the baby-boomers and an increased number of women in the workplace, low petrol prices, and the political and security crisis. From 2000 to 2013 unemployment lessened. In fact, the high price of petrol in this period created a large number of precarious jobs and a drop in demand. From 2014, unemployment increased while the price of petrol fell.This work also studies the marketplace on a local level via 5 communes in wilaya d'Oran. The analysis of the information reveals a strong female participation, almost half of them have tertiary qualifications. That has influenced the total activity which is higher than the national average. Employment is low in the communes with an industrial structure and more important in built-up areas.The study shows that the level of education for first job seekers plays an important role between the employment of men and women: the age of tertiary educated men and women entering their first job is almost equal, where the level of education of men and women is equal or less than the average, women enter the workforce later than men. The study reveals that the level of job-seekers is higher than the national average. The level of unemployment is higher in the labour pool of the communes of wilaya d'Oran
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Ben, Yahmed Sarra. "Inégalité entre hommes et femmes sur le marché du travail, les rôles du commerce international et du secteur informel." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1089/document.
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Cette thèse traite deux questions relatives aux inégalités salariales entre hommes et femmes. Le premier et le deuxième chapitres analysent l'impact du commerce international sur les écarts de salaire entre hommes et femmes, tandis que le troisième chapitre se pose la question de l'influence du secteur informel sur ces écarts. Le premier chapitre montre que le commerce international peut avoir des effets opposés sur l'écart de salaire entre hommes et femmes via le canal de la concurrence. Les prédictions du modèle théorique sont testées par une analyse empirique des écarts de salaire en Uruguay sur une période incluant la création du Mercosur. Le deuxième chapitre étudie la façon dont l'intégration commerciale peut modifier les écarts de salaire entre hommes et femmes différemment en fonction des qualifications. Le modèle théorique montre que le commerce international creuse les écarts salariaux entre hommes et femmes qualifiés et réduit cet écart entre hommes et femmes non qualifiées. Le troisième chapitre conduit une analyse empirique des écarts de salaire entre hommes et femmes dans les emplois formels et informels au Brésil. Alors que l'écart brut de salaire est plus élevé dans le secteur informel que dans le secteur formel, les résultats indiquent que cette différence est un artefact de la composition de l'emploi dans les deux secteurs. Dans le secteur informel, la correction du biais de sélection réduit le différentiel de salaire, ajusté des caractéristiques productives, qui n'est plus significatif. Dans le secteur formel, en revanche, l'écart de salaire, ajusté des caractéristiques productives et corrigé de la sélection, demeure élevé et fortement significatifThis dissertation consists of three essays on gender wage inequality. The two first chapters explore the impact of international trade on the gender wage gap, while the third chapter deals with the role of the informal sector in shaping the gender wage gap. By integrating the taste-based theory of discrimination and the oligopolistic trade literature, the first chapter shows that international trade can have two opposite effects on the gender wage gap through the channel of competition. The predictions of the models are confirmed by an empirical analysis of gender wage gaps in Uruguay following the Mercosur trade agreement. The second chapter investigates how international trade impacts the gender wage gap at different points of the skill distribution, by incorporating statistical discrimination into a model of trade with heterogeneous firms and workers. The model shows trade integration reduces the gender wage gap among high-skilled workers but reduces the gender wage gap among unskilled workers. The third chapter investigates whether the gender wage gap differs in the formal and the informal segments of the labour market in Brazil. It shows that the higher raw wage gap in the informal sector is an artificial effect of the different sorting of men and women into formal and informal jobs. First, the female advantage in observable productive characteristics is stronger among formal employees. Second, selection into work status differs between men and women. In the informal sector, the selection-corrected gender wage gap is reduced and not significant anymore. In the formal sector, however, the selection-corrected gender wage gap is large and highly significant
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Gherbi, Hassiba. "Analyse de l'emploi informel féminin en Algérie : cas de la wilaya de Béjaia." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC0101.
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Ce travail se concentre sur la place et le statut des femmes dans l’économie informelle. Qu’est ce qui donne à ces femmes l’élan et le courage de travailler dans des conditions précaires et défavorisées ? Quelles sont les caractéristiques distinctives des stratégies dont elles s’inspirent transcender leur position structurellement défavorisée au sein de l’économie ? Quelles sont les barrières auxquelles elles continuent de se heurter dans leurs efforts en vue de lutter contre les injustices de la société ? Afin de répondre à ces interrogations, nous avons réalisé en 2012 une enquête représentative auprès d’un échantillon de 1016 ménages dans la wilaya de Béjaia, parmi 783 femmes actives, un tiers des occupées exerce dans l’informel. L’analyse en coupe instantanée des données de l’enquête met en évidence l’hétérogénéité du secteur informel féminin (diversité des activités, raisons et niveau d’informalité variable, disparités salariales à l’égard des femmes). Celui-ci apparaît ni prépondérant, ni marginal. Nous distinguons deux groupes de femmes informelles, celles ayant des activités de subsistance et celles qui sont juste capables de satisfaire leurs besoins de base. L’analyse multidimensionnelle a permis de cerner différentes typologies de celles-ci (les travailleuses à domicile : couturières, les sous-traitantes de produits alimentaires, les nourrices, les coiffeuses…). L’éducation limitée, le manque de qualification, la richesse du ménage et les normes sociales jouent un rôle important dans l’intégration des femmes au marché du travail informel. Ces facteurs d’ordre économique et socioculturel accréditent l’idée de l’existence d’un secteur informel de survie pour les femmes et mettent en lumière leur rôle de reproduction sociale et non d’accumulationThis work focuses on the position of women working in the informal economy. What gives these women the momentum and the courage to work in precarious and poor conditions? What are the distinctive features of the strategies that inspired them transcend their structurally disadvantaged position in the economy? What are the barriers they continue to face in their efforts to fight against society's injustices? To answer these questions, we conducted in 2012 a representative survey with a sample of 1016 households in the wilaya of Bejaia; among 783 women employed, one third exert informal activities. The cross-sectional analysis of the survey highlighted the heterogeneity of women in the informal sector. It appears that it is neither leading nor marginal. We distinguish two groups of informal women, those with subsistence activities and those who can barely meet their basic needs. Multivariate analysis identified different categories (homeworkers: dressmakers, sub-contracting food providers, nurses, hairdressers). Poor education, lack of qualifications, household wealth and the social norms play an important role in the integration of women in the informal labor market. These economic and socio cultural factors support the idea of the existence of an informal sector of survival for women and emphasize their role regarding social reproduction, not accumulation
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Nobre, Letícia Coelho da Costa. "Trabalho precário e morte por acidente de trabalho: a outra face da violência e a invisibilidade do trabalho." Programa de pós-graduação em saúde coletiva, 2007. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/10395.
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Estudo descritivo das mortes por causas externas, ocorridas em 2004, entre homens e mulheres, de 10 a 69 anos de idade, residentes na capital e dois outros municípios da Região Metropolitana de Salvador, com objetivos de determinar a magnitude da participação dos acidentes de trabalho dentre as mortes violentas; avaliar a validade da informação sobre a causa básica de óbitos por acidentes de trabalho, nas declarações de óbitos por causas externas. Realizadas entrevistas domiciliares a familiares das pessoas falecidas, investigando as circunstâncias da morte, as situações de trabalho, as ocupações e demais variáveis sócio-demográficas. A causa básica de óbito foi reconstituída e codificada segundo normas da Classificação Estatística Internacional de Doenças e Problemas Relacionados à Saúde (CID-10). Foram estudados 648 óbitos por causas externas; 75,3% eram pessoas ocupadas; somente 26,5% tinham um contrato formal de trabalho. Foi estimado um percentual de 19,4% (126) de acidentes de trabalho em atividade lícita e 5,6% (36) em atividade ilícita; 56,8% dos óbitos foram devidos a homicídio; 27,2% acidentes de transporte; 14,2% outros acidentes e 1,9% suicídios. Estimados subregistro das mortes no trabalho (92,6%); sensibilidade (7,14%); especificidade (99,81%); valor preditivo positivo (90,0%); valor preditivo negativo (81,66%); elevado índice de discordância entre as causas básicas de óbito (52,8%), maior entre mulheres (61,4%); em maiores de 30 anos de idade (64,0%) e entre acidentes de transporte (84,7%) e suicídios (82,8%). O estudo demonstrou importante contribuição dos acidentes de trabalho nas mortes por causas externas, com proporções variáveis conforme o tipo de violência e identificou uma sensibilidade muito baixa do sistema oficial de informações sobre mortalidade para identificar as mortes no trabalho.
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Pick, Bernard. "The scope and extent of home-based business income relative to employment earnings in financing basic household expenditures:a study in the sub-economic housing area of Kleinvlei in the Cape Metropole." Thesis, Peninsula Technikon, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1791.
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Thesis (MTech (Entrepreneurship))--Peninsula Technikon, Cape Town, 2002The scope and extent of home-based businesses and the determination of the method by which the greater portion of household income is generated, in poor neighbourhoods, is the crux of this study. The study was undertaken among the 2245 households in the Kleinvlei sub-economic housing area located in the Oostenberg municipal substructure within the Cape Metropole. According to the municipal statistics the average income among these households is R75 (Rands 75) per month and the educational level of the population is of a low standard. A random sample of500 households was the basis of the research data. The size, necessity and importance of self-generated (business-derived) income in augmenting primary employment-related (wage-based) earnings is the focus ofthis research study. Declared sources of income are verified by measuring the percentage spent on essential household goods and services. Ancillary objectives are determining the motivation for starting these businesses as well as measuring household wealth (assets) through observations. The significance of this descriptive research is the determination of the relative contribution Of business income and the magnitude of the levels of poverty. It provides the primary data (base information) for policy formulation relating to social and economic development in this sub-economic. The results correlate with findings of national longitudinal studies. The level of job creation through businesses is minimal and the extent of unemployment is much greater than anticipated.
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Basak, Zeynep. "Explaining Informalization Via Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Evidence From Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606551/index.pdf.
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The primary aim of the thesis is to explain informality with the help of labor market segmentation theory in the case of Turkey. In so doing, the informalization process in Turkey is discussed with reference to not only the definitional confusions in different conceptualizations of the informal sector in the literature, but also trade liberalization, privatization, subcontracting relationships and the notion of &ldquoflexible firm&rdquo
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how the dimensions of informality fit into the perception about labor market segmentation theory&rdquo
, the field surveys conducted by different authors are analyzed. The findings of these field surveys confirm a possible explanation of informalization via labor market segmentation theory in Turkey.
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Padua, Andreia Aparecida Silva de. "MIGRAÇÃO, EXPANSÃO DEMOGRÁFICA E DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO EM GOIÁS." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2008. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/2847.
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Previous issue date: 2008-04-08The present research has the purpose of analyzing the demographic growth of Goias, also approaching the growth of the State economy. It testifies that the Gross Domestic Product, in the last decades, has grown at rates higher than the national average. At the same time, it verifies that the population migration continues in an accelerated rhythm towards the territory of Goias. When the study makes a parallel between the economic growth and the demographic growth, the research concludes that the economic expansion has not been sufficient to expand the regional economically active population. While developing the research, methods of procedure called historical and comparative were used and the modality of research adopted was the bibliographic.
A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o crescimento demográfico de Goiás, abordando juntamente o crescimento da economia de Estado. Constata que o Produto Interno Bruto, nas últimas décadas, tem crescido a taxas superiores a média nacional. Ao mesmo tempo, verifica que a migração populacional continua acelerada para o território goiano. Ao fazer um paralelo entre crescimento econômico e crescimento demográfico, a pesquisa conclui que a expansão econômica não tem sido suficiente à expansão da população economicamente ativa regional. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa, foram utilizados os métodos de procedimento denominados histórico e comparativo e a modalidade da pesquisa adotada foi a bibliográfica.