GLOBALIZATION AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: HOW GLOBAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT IMPACT ON THE WORKING POOR

By M. Carr. 2002

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Lurking in the cities: Urbanization and the informal economy (2013, background): “According to the structuralist view, the formal enterprises interlink their activities to the informal sector for the aim of cost reduction and increasing labor flexibility (Castells and Portes, 1989; Chen, 2006; Carr and Chen, 2002).”
Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective (2016, background): “…chains, thousands of separate, undocumented incidents continue to happen every year, and hundreds of thousands of workers in developing countries are being exposed to unsafe working conditions, low wages and long working hours (Balakrishnan, 2002; Carr and Chen, 2002; Islam and Deegan, 2008).”
Globalization and Informal Jobs in Developing Countries (2010, background): “Indeed, depending on the type of informal work – informal employer, self-employed, casual worker or home worker – informal employment is remunerated at vastly different levels, further contributing to distributional concerns (Carr and Chen, 2002).”