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How Much are you Willing to Accept for Being Away From Home? Internal Migration and Job Satisfaction Among Formal-Informal Ecuadorian Workers
Recently, migration and migrated distance significantly affects people's mood and satisfaction, and this idea has been recently incorporated in...
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Identifying the Unmet Needs in Family-Friendly Policy: Surveying Formal and Informal Support on Work-Life Conflict in Hong Kong
Organizations utilize various options to help employees reduce work-life conflict, from formal family-friendly benefits to non-institutionalized...
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Urban Disparities and Quality of Life Among Afghan Refugees Living in Informal Settlements in Mashhad, Iran
Urban planning policies have important implications for the quality of life of citizens and residents. Quality of life is measured through...
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Without Children at Home: Transition to Herplaces and Hisplaces
The way the family home is arranged and experienced depends on various significant life events. This chapter specifically focuses on the domestic...
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Conceptualising care: critical perspectives on informal care and inequality
Informal care occupies a paradoxical place in contemporary societies. It is at once reified as an inherent social good, and minimised, devalued, and...
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Unveiling the dynamics of informal settlements in quito: occupation, organisation, and infrastructure challenges
This paper investigates the factors sha** the social and spatial configuration of informal settlements in Quito, centring on the research question:...
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Practices and informal institutions governing artisanal gillnet fisheries in Western Ghana
Understanding the informal institutions arising from cultural norms, taboos, and beliefs can improve conservation efforts and resource management in...
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Informal childcare arrangements: a comparison between Italians and migrants
As migrants settle in their destination country, for those who reunited the family or after childbirth childcare becomes a priority. Most studies on...
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Does Regulatory Quality Reduce Informal Economy? A Theoretical and Empirical Framework
Italy is characterised by a significant dualistic economy, which also includes an extensive underground sector. The aim of this study is to analyse...
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Determinants of Informal Social Help Among Women Enduring Marital Separation and Poverty
The private economic assistance that women experiencing poverty can potentially receive during a marital separation has been largely overlooked. This...
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Resilience Pathways of Informal Settlements in Nairobi: Stasis, Decline, Adaptation, and Transformation
This study investigates resilience pathways of informal settlements, and their diverse impacts through community-based participatory research in...
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Social Work at Home: Dual Relationships
This chapter focuses on rural social workers’ experiences of living and working in the community they serve. It will involve an exploration of the...
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Informal Tyre Dealers in South Africa: an Assessment of Their Contributions to a Circular Economy
Faced with extraordinarily high unemployment, the long-term unemployed in South Africa increasingly have been securing livelihoods outside of...
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COVID-19 and Women in the Informal Sector: The Psychological Impact
In the labour force, women make up a large proportion of the informal economy, healthcare workers and hospitality workers. Many have lost jobs in the...
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Does Having More Children Affect Women’s Informal Employment Choices? Evidence from China
With the relaxation of the One-Child Policy in China, women are likely to face more conflicts between childcare and work. How to boost the fertility...
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Paid Informal Caregivers’ Management of Older Adults’ Health Demands: Implication for Social Work Professionals in Contemporary Nigerian Society
Oftentimes, older adults experience a decline in health as they age. In Nigeria and other African countries, caregiving for older adults is usually a...
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Employment, Informal Sector Work, and Social Policy for Women of Pakistan
This chapter covers employment policy and formal sector inclusion policy for women of Pakistan. Reasons for low labor force participation of women...
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Leaving home across the recent cohorts in Italy: does economic vulnerability due to labour market status matter?
We focus on the process of leaving home among young Italians and aim to discern: (a) the extent to which the potential economic vulnerability...
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Innovation and Flexibility: Nigerian Women in Durban’s Informal Economy
Nigerian women are known for their diligence in trading and starting their own informal businesses to be financially independent. This chapter draws...
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Migrant Care Workers in Home-Care Settings in Germany: Inequality Dynamics and Policy Interactions
With the introduction of Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) in 1995, Germany established a universal, family-oriented long-term care system. Within this...