Contextualising informality in the South African labour market indicators of the limits to evidence-based research?
OUTPUT TYPE: Research report- other
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): D.Fryer
KEYWORDS: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, LABOUR MARKET
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9143
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9583
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9583
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): D.Fryer
KEYWORDS: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, LABOUR MARKET
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 9143
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9583
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9583
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Abstract
This is the task to which this paper addresses itself: how do we begin to understand informality (and related concepts like unemployment) in context? This is vitally important considering how significant informality (particularly informality at the base of buyer-driven commodity chains) is becoming.-
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