Wage labor and social inequality in Kinshasa's informal economy: A class analysis
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Democratic Republic of Congo; informal economy; Kinshasa; labor; social class; social inequality;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HME-2023-10-30 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-IUE-2023-10-30 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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