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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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