Public and Workplace Services

Labour Migration and Households: A Reconsideration of the Effects of the Social Pension on Labour Supply in South Africa

Epidemiological Surveillance of Informal Worker’s Health in Two Cities in Southeastern Brazil

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The effects of outsourcing on occupational health and safety: A comparative study of factory-based workers and outworkers in the Australian clothing industry

Informal jobs and non-fatal occupational injuriesAnnals of Occupational Hygiene

Objectives: In Brazil, workers without a formal job contract represent approximately half of the labor force but there are no official statistics...

Salud y seguridad ocupacional para comerciantes feriantes y ambulantes en Acra y Takoradi, Ghana

Social protection for women homeworkers: a case of healthcare services in Thailand

The Urban Dibao Program in China: Targeting and its EffectThe Indian Journal of Labour Economics

In this paper, the data of China’s Urban Employment and Social Protection Survey 2010 (CULS3) has been adopted to evaluate the dibao programme...

South Africa: Transition Under Pressure

Editorial: Urban livelihoods: reframing theory and policy

This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. This paper, which also serves as an introduction to this...

Childcare from the perspective of women informal workers

Early Childhood Matters aims to elevate key issues, spread awareness of promising solutions to support holistic child development and explore...