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• "Thanks also Sally for the cite to the forthcoming ILO publication... It does seem useful to draw a distinction between regulations that protect workers from exploitation and ones that put barriers..."

  24 May 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

• Portland Food Cartology.pdf

  24 May 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

• "Thank you, Chike, Fernanda and others. I'm learning a lot here and will be looking into your citations and incorporating your insights into my and Prof. Vitiello's work!"

  17 May 2012 on Can agriculture be an urban job creator?

• published a topic: Can agriculture be an urban job creator?

  10 May 2012

• ""The conventional wisdom is that immigrants steal jobs from nationals. However, is this true?" Most of my knowledge on this topic concerns the U.S. but I recently discovered a paper by Sari..."

  9 May 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

• "Steve Miller asks, "Do regulations kill jobs or create them? Are they the cause of or solution to informality?" I think our public policy -- particularly immigration policy -- is so ambivalent on..."

  8 May 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

• precariat.docx

  8 May 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

• "This picture gets even bleaker if one factors in two other trends: 1) the particularly difficult plight of the long-term unemployed (42% of the unemployed in the U.S. today have been unemployed for..."

  8 May 2012 on Urban employment and the global financial crisis