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Making Ends Meet: Women’s Social Capital Development in Regional Informal Economies
- Author(s):
- Anna Cool, Sejuti Das Gupta, Caitlin Edwards, Louise Jezierski, Carter Oselett
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- MSU EDA University Center: Regional Economic Innovation
- Subject(s):
- Economics, Informal sector (Economics), Michigan--Lansing, Women--Employment, COVID-19 (Disease)
- Item Type:
- Report
- Tag(s):
- #Equity, #Economic, #Development, #EconomicDevelopment, #EconomicDevelopmentAdministration, #EDA, #LansingMichigan, #BrokerageInstitutions, #Formal/InformalEconomies
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/wrgs-jz65
- Abstract:
- The project examines how women workers and employers navigate the informal sector of Michigan’s economy. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis has impacted women especially, with layoffs in service sector jobs and women leaving the labor force to care for children. Women engage the labor market through social networks and “brokerage institutions” such as churches, schools, gyms, neighborhoods, to find household service workers and to find work. The research design employs mixed methodologies - archival data analysis and in-depth interviews - to map and model supply chains and networks in the connections between formal and informal work in Lansing’s regional informal economy.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 months ago
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