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Informal Economy and Family Strategies
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This article is published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.The article was published on 1994-03-01. It has received 148 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Informal sector.read more
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Mixed embeddedness: (in)formal economic activities and immigrant businesses in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of Islamic butchers in the Netherlands is presented to understand the social position of these migrants and their chances of upward social mobility, focusing on their insertion in the wider society in terms of customers, suppliers and various kinds of business organizations.
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Mixed Embeddedness: (In)formal Economic Activities and Immigrant Businesses in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of Islamic butchers in the Netherlands is presented, where the authors propose a more comprehensive concept of mixed embeddedness that aims at incorporating both the co-ethnic social networks as well as the linkages (or lack of linkages) between migrant entrepreneurs and the economic and institutional context of the host society.
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Structural adjustment and subsistence industry: Artisanal gold mining in Ghana
Gavin Hilson,Clive Potter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors brought new evidence to bear on the contention that the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) has both fuelled the uncontrolled growth of informal, poverty-driven artisanal gold mining and further marginalized its impoverished participants.
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From Coping Strategies to Tactics: London's Low-Pay Economy and Migrant Labour
TL;DR: This paper examined the means by which low-paid migrant workers survive in a rapidly changing and increasingly unequal labour market and argued that the difficulties migrant workers face in the London labour market reduces their ability to "strategize" and adopt a range of "tactics" that enable them to "get by" on a day-to-day basis.
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Routes to the informal economy in new york's east village: crisis, economics, and identity
TL;DR: In this paper, a group of self-employed men and women in New York City's East Village neighborhood were asked to describe why they entered the informal economy and why they worked in the informal sector.
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Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action1
TL;DR: The concept of social embeddings has also been used in economic sociology as mentioned in this paper, where the authors explore the different forms in which social structures affect economic action and their consequences, positive and negative, highlighted.
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Informal Income Opportunities and Urban Employment in Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the economic activities of the low-income section of the labour force in Accra, the urban sub-proletariat into which the unskilled and illiterate majority of Frafra migrants are drawn.
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Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States
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The Emilian model: productive decentralisation and social integration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a dynamic analysis of the interaction between the productive structure, the labour market, and the principal political institutions in Emilia-Romagna, showing that over the last fifteen years, the region has had an economic performance distinctly better than many other regions in Italy, and has shown itself more resilient to crisis.
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Informal sector or petty commodity production: Dualism or dependence in urban development?
TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the informal sector debate in recent studies of Third World poverty and employment is presented, based on petty commodity production and its subordinate relationship to the capitalist sector.