Is there a link between quality of employment and indebtedness? The case of urban low-income households in Ecuador

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 499-526

  Floro, Maria Sagrario ^a   Messier, John ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Debt service ratio; Gender; Informal sector; Job quality; Urban poverty

Indexed keywords

DEBT CRISIS; EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; LOW INCOME POPULATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ECUADOR;

EID: 79955763712     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/beq034     Document Type: Article

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