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Passion, precarity and inequality? : working conditions of urban dancers in Colombia
Sabogal Camargo, Angela María - 2021
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Urban cultural amenities and the migration of the creative class
Dalvai, Wilfried - 2016 - This version: March 2015
This paper models the migration of the Creative Class (Florida, 2003) in a New-Economic-Geography framework. Beside wage differentials, urban cultural amenities play an important role on the choice of location. A public cultural good, financed by taxes, is introduced as an agglomeration force....
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City competition for the creative class
Büttner, Thiess; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013
This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing cultural activities. A theoretical analysis discusses these subsidies as a form of local public good provision which makes a city more attractive to highly educated individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189826
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Informal work and official employment statistics: what's missing?
Bracha, Anat; Burke, Mary A. - 2023 - This version: September 2023
-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our results suggest that employment rates among US household heads … employment-to-population ratio would have been 0.25 to 1.1 percentage points higher over the 2015-2022 period and as much as 5 … informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their …
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What has been driving work-to-work transitions in the emerging world? : a comparative study of Indonesia and South Africa
Brehm, Johannes; Doku, Angela; Escudero, Verónica - 2023
. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240004
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Freelance platform work in the Russian Federation : 2009-2019
Shevchuk, Andrey; Strebkov, Denis - 2021
This paper traces the development of freelance platform work in the Russian Federation based on unique data from four online surveys conducted over the period 2009 and 2019 via the leading platform for creative and knowledge-based work and analyses the working conditions and well-being of the...
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Creative India : tapping the full potential
Kukreja, Prateek; Puri, Havishaye; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022
people working in various creative occupations-is estimated to contribute nearly 8% of the country's employment, much higher … depth of creativity across India. Yet, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, India's creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479572
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Creative India : tapping the full potential
Kukreja, Prateek; Puri, Havishaye; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022
people working in various creative occupations-is estimated to contribute nearly 8% of the country's employment, much higher … creativity across India. Yet, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, India's creative exports are only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013489422
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Export-led development, employment and gender in the era of globalization
Otobe, Naoko - 2016
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Curbing precarious informal employment and bonded labour in the agriculture sector of Nepal : GEFONT's initiative to liberate Kamaiyas
Rimal, Bishnu - 2019
The Kamaiya liberation campaign was one of the robust interventions of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), which aimed to put a stop to informal and forced (almost slavery in many dimensions) labour practices. The Kamaiya system was one of the most vulnerable bonded labour...
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