All posts in The Americas
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Research Reports
Broken laws, unprotected workers: Violations of employment and labour laws in America’s cities
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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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Research Reports
Belo Horizonte Selective Waste Collection Programme
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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
Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, Catadores, Participação e Cidadania – Novas Articulações?
This paper traces back the origins of the conceptual framework Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management, and examines how this concept...
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Policy Briefs
Visão geral dos Instrumentos Legais para a Inclusão de Recicladores Informais na Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil
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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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Research Reports
Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia
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Research Reports
Possible Choices, Valuable Meanings: an Overview of the Activities of Brazilian Recyclable Materials Pickers
Recyclable materials pickers have been sorting through garbage and transforming it into usable commodities for a long time in many places...
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Research Reports
The Formal and Informal Sectors in Colombia: Country Case Study on Labour Market Segmentation
Employment Working Paper No.146
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