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  • Journal Articles

    Working in Large Food Retailers in France and the USA: The Key Role of InstitutionsWork Employment & Society

    Abstract: Despite numerous similarities between the food retail sectors of France and the USA, there are significant contrasts in the jobs,...

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  • Project 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

    Extending Social Protection to Informal Workers in the Horticulture Global Value Chain

    Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No. 0216

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  • Working Papers

    Domestic Workers in Latin America: Statistics for New Policies

    This paper analyzes domestic work, where the labour relationship is ill-regulated and difficult to control, and the conditions and characteristics...

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  • Journal Articles

    Informal Jobs: Another Occupational Hazard for Women’s Mental Health?International Journal of Epidemiology

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  • Law & Informality Insights

    A Experiência de Advocacy no caso dos Trabalhadores Ambulantes em São Paulo

    Este sumário, disponível em português, faz uma reflexão sobre o processo jurídico que contestou e acabou por derrubar uma proibição da Câmara...

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  • Research Reports

    Wages and Employment in International Recessions: Recent Latin American Experience

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  • Research Reports

    Waste Pickers’ Recognition as Public Waste Managers in Colombia

    Presentation prepared for the Conference “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South.”

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  • Journal Articles

    Labor Market Rigidities and Informality in ColombiaEconomía

    Informality has been at the center of the economic debate in Colombia as a result of the high levels prevalent in the country and its substantial...

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  • Journal Articles

    Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

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