Retiring in the Informal Economy: Implications for Social Policy Intervention for Ageing Workers in Ghana

Author(s):  
Samuel A. Oteng ◽  
Esmeranda Manful ◽  
Kofi Osei Akuoko
2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Rogers ◽  
Peter Huxley ◽  
Richard Thomas ◽  
Brian Robson ◽  
Sherill Evans ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Susanne Urban ◽  
Zoran Slavnic

I denna artikel analyseras de socio-ekonomiska konsekvenserna av den hastigt avreglerade taxibranschen. Det har blivit vanligare för utrikes födda att arbeta i taxibranschen, men de har inte blivit integrerade på samma villkor som de infödda kollegerna. Trots att de utrikes födda är högre utbildade, har de lägre inkomst från taxibranschen än de infödda. Resultaten visar hur en bransch med försämrade arbetsvillkor kan erbjuda relativt attraktiva arbetsmöjligheter för utrikes födda, samtidigt som det resulterar i en oavsiktlig bieffekt, nämligen att utrikes födda påverkas hårdast av de rekommodifierande processerna i relationerna mellan arbetsmarknad och socialpolitik. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Susanne Urban & Zoran Slavnic: Recommodification of the Taxi Sector: Changing of Economic Relations and Ethnic Composition This article addresses the socio-economic consequences of the rapid deregulation of the Swedish taxi sector. Foreign-born residents have become more involved in the taxi business, but they have not been integrated in the sector under the same conditions as their Swedish-born fellow workers. Although higher educated, they have lower incomes from the taxi sector than their Swedish-born colleagues. Our findings show how a sector with increasingly poorer working conditions appears to be an attractive employment opportunity for foreign-born citizens. However, at the same time, there is an unintended side-effect, in that the foreign born workers are severely affected by the recommodification processes in the relations between labour market and social policy. Key words: Taxi sector, ethnic segmentation, re-commodifi-cation, deregulation, ethnic divison of labor, informal economy.


2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. OSBORNE

Developing the equality agenda has been a major preoccupation of policy intervention in Northern Ireland since Direct Rule from London was instituted in 1972. This paper examines how policy has developed and its effectiveness. The paper highlights new developments since the Belfast Agreement of 1998 and examines in particular new attempts to mainstream equality in the policy process. The paper concludes by suggesting that the Northern Ireland experience has much to offer students of social policy elsewhere.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-552
Author(s):  
R. I. Anisimov

The article considers main approaches to the study of non-standard labor relations. Based on the conceptual model proposed by C. Rakowski, three approaches to the analysis of non-standard labor relations are presented: structuralist, neo-Marxist, and legalist. The author identifies methodological limitations and heuristic potential of these approaches, and using statistical and sociological data claims that non-standard labor relations are widespread in Russia (from 32 to 59 million people). The article presents different estimates of non-standard labor relations: some authors focus on their advantages, others - on disadvantages depending on the ideological positions and the object of analysis. The author insists on the methodological confusion in the study of non-standard labor relations in the legalist approach which combines informal economy with non-standard employment, making it difficult to consider beneficiaries and ‘victims’ of the emerging system. According to the studies, the benefits of non-standard labor relations are typical for entrepreneurs, while disadvantages - for employees. The author proposes to distinguish employees from non-standard labor relations and entrepreneurs in the informal economy, which allows to combine all concepts of non-standard labor relations and to identify winners and losers of such relations. The article also mentions reasons for the growth of non-standard labor relations: globalization, automatization of labor, changes of labor values, and social policy - under the evolution of capitalism as a historical system.


2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fausto Miguélez ◽  
Albert Recio

Regularisation measures in Spain have formed part of an overall immigration policy that until a few years ago was geared more towards border security than to meeting the demands of the labour market. However, the regularisation campaign in 2005 was different: it enjoyed widespread popular support and sought to combat the informal economy and grant employment rights to immigrants who were in fact working. As a result, the labour market is now better regulated, but efforts to combat segmentation have not been so successful. Furthermore, the regularisation campaigns were inadequately funded, and failed to bring about sufficient improvements in public policies.


Author(s):  
Linda Challis ◽  
Susan Fuller ◽  
Melanie Henwood ◽  
Rudolf Klein ◽  
William Plowden ◽  
...  
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1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Zigler ◽  
Susan Muenchow

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