Employment Flashcards
What is formal employment?
4
Jobs with regular hours, a weekly set wage, pay taxes and have reasonable working conditions.
What is informal employment?
4
Jobs with no payment of taxes, unskilled & labour intensive, require little money to set up and offer no protection to the worker.
What 4 groups are at risk due to the dominance of informal employment?
Children
Older people
People with disabilities
Women
Groups at risk due to dominance of informal employment - how are CHILDREN at risk?
Reduced family stability (link to functionalism - it’s important to have a consensus society where the government controls business).
Groups at risk due to dominance of informal employment - how are OLDER PEOPLE at risk?
Few informal jobs have regular hours.
Groups at risk due to dominance of informal employment - how are PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES at risk?
Find it harder to adapt to new settings/some jobs are unsuitable.
Groups at risk due to dominance of informal employment - how are WOMEN at risk?
No/very little maternity leave pay (links to children).
Remittances - what are remittances?
Money sent to family/friends/saving accounts in foreign countries by the immigrant workforce.
Dilip Ratha: ‘The Invisible Billions: Remittances’
What is a disadvantage of Remittances?
Banks are private organisations - workers can be exploited in the form of foreign exchange commisson (charge for converting currency).
Dilip Ratha: ‘The Invisible Billions: Remittances’
What is a benefit of remittances?
Removes barriers & supports trickle-down theory (neoliberal).
Dilip Ratha: ‘The Invisible Billions: Remittances’
People in ____ don’t need a _______ _____ as they receive ___________.
a) LICs
b) welfare state
c) remittances
Dilip Ratha - Remittances
____ adult _______ live outside India - much of India’s ________ is made up from __________.
a) 1/5
b) Indians
c) economy
d) remittances
Dilip Ratha: ‘The Invisible Billions: Remittances’
___________ cost ______ to send (ie _______ - ___% of wage) due to ___________ (ie to _____ money _________).
a) remittances
b) money
c) Canada
d) 9.2%
e) regulations
f) fight
g) laundering
Dilip Ratha: ‘The Invisible Billions: Remittances’
What does Ratha suggest there should be?
A ‘people’s bank’ to supports people (postmodern socialism)
Technology can be used & not involve big companies.
People rely on themselves to invest in it (ie building facilities abroad via kickstarters).
Dilip Ratha - Remittances:
How globalisation has made remittances an important part of developing countries economies:
_________ world’s _____ in favour of _______ countries. In 20__, remittances to __________ countries were $________.
Help ______ as well as _________ by the flow of _____ into a __________.
a) redistributes, income, poorer, 2014, developing, $436 billion
b) families, development, capital, national economy
