This Brief examines the dynamics between the informal economy and unemployment rates, the causes of informality, its consequences and potential reduction measures at both the theoretical and empirical level. Using Lithuania as a case study, this book tests the assumption that participation in...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Expansion and expectation: footloose-ness -- Chapter 3: Did we explain? -- Chapter 4: Alternative explanation from labour studies -- Chapter 5: Transition in Indian employment -- Chapter 6: Definitional Dilemma -- Chapter 7: Process of Informalisation of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Informal workers organizing: Trends from Asia, Africa and Latin America -- Chapter 3. Organizing informality: the story from Nepal -- Chapter 4. Helping ourselves: organizing in Bangladesh -- Chapter 5. Organizing among informal workers of Uganda -- Chapter...

1. Introduction: Informality in Paraguayan Context -- 2. Literature Review: The Informal Economy -- 3. Informality Measure and Models -- 4. Logistic Regression Results of In/Formality in Paraguay -- 5. Discussion of Results -- 6. Policy Recommendations and Conclusions

1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. Research Methodology -- 4. The Evolution of the Paraguayan Tax System -- 5. A Formalising Economy -- 6. Political Consequences -- 7. Discussion and Conclusion

Section I: Conceptualizing Labour Questions in the Global South -- Chapter 1: Labour questions in the Global South -- Chapter 2: The Concept of ‘Working People’ -- Chapter 3: The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour -- Chapter 4: Rent and Surplus in the Global Production Network: Identifying...

Chapter 1: When will formality become the norm? -- Chapter 2: Self-employment and Human Capital -- Chapter 3: Informal and Formal Employment in a Liberalizing Economy -- Chapter 4: Migrants and Informal Casual Labour Markets -- Chapter 5: Wage Disparity and Human Capital Accumulation -- Chapter...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...