Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

The Impact of International Outsourcing on Unionization and Wages: Evidence from the Apparel Export Sector in Central America

This article interrogates the common industrial relations assumption that increased manufacturing jobs will create increased unionization...

Gender Differences in Pay

Abstract: We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in qualifications...

Informal Economies and Urban Governance in Nigeria: Popular Empowerment or Political Exclusion?African Studies Review

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Women and Informality: A Global Picture, the Global Movement SAIS Review

Over the past two decades, employment in the informal sector has risen rapidly in all regions in the world. Until the recent Asian economic...

Institutions and Female Entrepreneurship

Addressing Informality, Reducing PovertyPoverty in Focus

There is increasing recognition that decent and productive employment is an essential pathway to poverty reduction. Most of the working poor...

The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria

Informal economy, informal state: the case of UzbekistanInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

In the Soviet Union, the official command structure for economic production and distribution gave rise to, and depended upon, what has been...

Governance Structure and Labour Market Outcomes in Garment Embellishment Chains

China’s Neglected Informal Economy: Reality and TheoryModern China

Abstract: The informal economy—defined as workers who have no security of employment, receive few or no benefits, and are often unprotected...