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Direct linkTimofeyev, Yuriy – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper clarifies the social and economic effects of employment in the informal sector on the poor in Russia in recent years. The article describes the extent to which the figures for informal sector at large and unofficial employment in particular vary in different estimates and the effect they have on the average labor income of the poor. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor, Wages, Poverty
Lai, Dejian – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Based on the recent three population censuses of China, in this article, we used life table technique to compute the expected years of working life for the Chinese labor force in the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in 1982, 1990 and 2000. We found, after two decades of economic reform, the expected years of working life in the primary…
Descriptors: Females, Industry, Labor, Foreign Countries
Lin, Chun-Hung A. – Social Indicators Research, 2007
The expansion of higher education in Taiwan starting from the late 1980s has successfully raised the average level of education. Using the concept of the education Gini, we find that the educational inequality declined as average schooling rose during the period of 1976-2003. The impacts of a rising average schooling and a declining educational…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Income, Educational Attainment, Labor Market
Smith, Rebecca – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Contingent, non-standard or "casual" work is present in large numbers in virtually every sector of the United States economy. Staffing strategies that use subcontracted or contingent work--strategies that once characterized only some low-wage workers such as garment and agriculture--have now spread to virtually every area of industry, including…
Descriptors: Wages, Labor, Laborers, Court Litigation
Vosko, Leah F. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
This article explores the transnational regulation of temporary work. Analyzing the terms of the EU "Directive on Fixed-Term Work (1999), the ILO "Convention on Private Employment Agencies" (1997), the ILO "Recommendation on the Employment Relationship" (2006), and a draft EU Directive on "Temporary Agency Work"…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Temporary Employment, Labor, Statistical Data
Peer reviewedPomeroy, Carlton; Jacob, Steve – Social Indicators Research, 2004
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have been trying to help developing countries speed up economic growth in order to help eradicate poverty. In the last two decades these policies in the Dominican Republic have caused rapid and severe changes. Over the last two centuries Dominican culture has faced numerous challenges…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Unskilled Workers, Service Occupations
