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Formal and informal long term care work: policy conflict in a liberal welfare state
Caroline Murphy, Thomas TurnerThe undervaluing of care work, whether conducted informally or formally, has long been subject to debate. While much discussion, and indeed reform has centred on childcare, there…
Gender time-use gap and task segregation in unpaid work: evidence from Switzerland
Michael Nollert, Martin GasserThe purpose of this paper is to focus first on the development of the segregation of tasks in family and housework in Switzerland and its linkage to the gender time-use gap in…
Experience and coping of employment risks in Hong Kong
May Tam, Chung Yan IpThe purpose of this paper is to use the case of Hong Kong to assess the equalisation and individualization claim of the risk society approach to studying experience and coping of…
An investigation of marketing capabilities of informal microenterprises: A study of street food vending in Thailand
Eijaz Ahmed KhanMarketing capabilities of large- and medium-sized enterprise is well understood and focused, but little research has been done on microenterprise, especially in informal sector…
Explaining participation in undeclared work in France: lessons for policy evaluation
Jan Windebank, Ioana Alexandra HorodnicFrance is a model of best practice in the European Union as regards policy to combat undeclared work. The purpose of this paper is to take the country as a case study to evaluate…
Lining up for charity: A study of the social organization and communal qualities of breadlines in a Finnish city
Anna Sofia SalonenRecent decades have witnessed a rise in food charity provided by faith-based and other charitable agencies. Previous research has noted that besides material assistance, these…
Community benefits agreements (CBAs): a typology for shrinking cities
Kelly L. Patterson, Molly Ranahan, Robert M. Silverman, Li YinCommunity benefits agreements (CBAs) redistribute the benefits of new development to distressed communities and historically disenfranchised groups. They allow coalitions of labor…
Social embeddedness, formal labor supply, and participation in informal work
Tim Slack, Michael R. Cope, Leif Jensen, Ann R. TickamyerThe purpose of this paper is to analyze data from the first-ever national-level study of informal work in the USA to test two prominent points of focus in the literature: how…
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