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  • Research Reports

    Proyecto de reconocimiento de la situación de derechos humanos de los recicladores en latinoamérica: El caso de Ciudad de México, México

    El presente documento describe en qué consiste la labor de los trabajadores voluntarios, la forma en que se realiza, las condiciones de salud...

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  • Research Reports

    Problems with Temporary and Subcontracted Work in California

    The nature of employment is changing. Employees are increasingly seen as liabilities rather than assets, and so workers are kept at arm’s...

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  • Journal Articles

    Home-Based Work and Women’s Labor Force DecisionsJournal of Labor Economics

    Abstract: Home‐based work differs from other employment because the work site is the home itself. This difference means that the fixed costs...

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  • Journal Articles

    ‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

    Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...

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  • Working Papers

    Presupuesto y Economía Informal en Brasil, Pakistán, Perú y las Filipinas

    Este documento reúne resultados de cuatro estudios de países sobre el análisis presupuestario de la economía informal.

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  • Journal Articles

    Associations and Activism: Mobilization of Urban Informal Workers in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

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  • Policy Briefs

    Integrating Informal Workers into Selective Waste Collection: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    This Briefing Note explores the origin and key elements of public policy focused on the integration of waste pickers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil....

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  • Research Reports

    Reporte del Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas de Chile

    Taller de Estadísticas del Sector Informal en América Latina (OIT/WIEGO)

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  • Research Reports

    The Informal Economy: Latino Enterprises at the Margins

    FIELD (The Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination) is a program of the Aspen Institute.

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  • Journal Articles

    Organising home-based workers in the global economy: an action-research approachDevelopment in Practice

    Abstract: This article describes an action-research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home-based work in...

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