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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Representing the part-time and contingent workforce: Challenges for unions and public policy

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  • Research Reports

    Microenterprises in the U.S. Informal Economy: Summary Research Findings

    Field Forum, Issue 15

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  • Research Reports

    Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings and Benefits

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  • Research Reports

    Non-Standard Employment and Issues Emerging from Experiences in Canada

    Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

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  • Research Reports

    Waste Picker Cooperatives in Developing Countries

    Paper prepared for WIEGO/Cornell/SEWA Conference on Membership-Based Organizations of the Poor, Ahmedabad, India, January 2005

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  • Research Reports

    Reconceptualizing the urban “informal sector” in underdeveloped countries: An overview of the Brazilian, Indian and South African cases

    Paper written for GLU Conference, Mumbai, 22-24 February 2009

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  • Working Papers

    Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Overview of Data for 11 Cities in 10 Developing Countries

    This paper presents tabulations on informal employment in urban areas of 10 developing countries: Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bamako, Cotonou,...

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  • Budget Briefs

    Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Brazil and Belo Horizonte

      This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series.   View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Garbage, Industry, and the ‘Vultures’ of Cali, Colombia

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  • Journal Articles

    The Formalization of Informal/Precarious Labor in Contemporary ArgentinaInternational Sociology

    Abstract: In this article we argue that the Argentinian state is legalizing or formalizing informal/precarious labor. In the actual context...

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