Central American Men and Women in the Urban Informal Sector

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3587264
AutoresJuan Pablo Pérez Sáinz (0000-0002-9492-0048), Rafael Menjivar Larin
Año1994
Volumen26
Número2
Páginas431-447
Fecha de publicación1994-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x0001628x
OpenAlexW1991461347
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas4

One of the research issues which FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) has been most interested in is that of the heterogeneity found in the informal world. In a previous study we tried to clarify its presence in the metropolitan cities of Central America and we concluded that, although dynamic economic units orientated towards a logic of accumulation existed, activities orientated towards a logic of subsistence predominated. Thus, a central feature of informality became clear: its inner heterogeneity. This characteristic was previously deemphasised by an improper identification of informality with microenterprise

Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Feature (linguistics) · Geography · Identification (biology) · Informal sector · Metropolitan area · Political science · Subsistence agriculture · Taxation and Compliance Studies