The informal economy : exploring drivers and practices

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The drivers of the informal economy -- Tax morale and informality in post-socialist contexts / Diana Traikova -- The many shades of the grey economy in Romania / Rodica Ianole-Colin, Colin Vâlsan, Elena Druic? -- Evaluating the perceptions and realities of envelope wage arrangements among students in Moldova and Romania / Ioana A. Horodnic, Colin C. Williams -- Book-launching informalities on the right side of a nineteenth-century walnut table / Marcello Mollica -- Assessing the frequency of informal payments for health services in Lithuania / Adrian V. Horodnic, Claudia I. Ciobanu, Colin C. Williams, Peter Rodgers -- Labour market institutions and undeclared work : a multilevel analysis of central and Eastern European countries / Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu -- The nature/character of the informal economy -- The role of informal work in the livelihood strategies of U.S. households / Emily J. Wornell, Leif Jensen, Ann Tickamyer -- From goods to emotions : the transformation of informal practices in the Republic of Georgia / Costanza Curro -- Looking for freedom in grey areas : approaches to informality as a space for negotiating goals of neoliberalism in developing the cooperation sector / Liga Rudzite -- Gifting practices in informal trade in response to elites' rules and state regulations on the Myanmar-Thailand border / Busarin Lertchavalitsakul -- Bazaar and local governance : the case of legalizing informal economic practices in the Batkhela bazaar, Pakistan / Muhammad Salman Khan -- Intrapreneurship and capital accumulation knowledge among trainees in the Nigerian informal economy / Akeem Ayofe Akinwale -- Informal competition, firm productivity and policy reforms in Egypt / Nesma Ali, Boris Najman -- About the contributors -- Index