sub-Saharan Africa. Reporting the results of face-to-face structured interviews with 80 informal entrepreneurs in Ghana …

Under-declared employment ... …

This paper evaluates critically the neo-liberal perspective which contends that informal employment results from high … Labor Organization data on the cross-national variations in the level of informal employment across 16 Latin American … informal employment. Instead, higher levels of regulation and state intervention are associated with lower (not higher) levels …

economy across the globe. Over the past quarter of a century, however, articles published in Work, Employment and Society have …

formal economy can be permeated by informal practices, a so far little discussed employment arrangement is here brought to … average to two fifthsof their wage packet. However, this employment practice is not evenly distributed across the EU. Such … quasi-formal employment is markedly more prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE),where the undeclared wage is more …

This paper evaluates critically the contrasting theories of informal employment that variously read this sector as a … leftover of pre-capitalism, a by-product of a new emergent form of capitalism, a complement to formal employment or an … informal employment in this country, and that only by combining them will a finer-grained and more comprehensive understanding …

This paper evaluates critically the argument of neo-liberals that informal employment is a result of high taxes, public … Organization data on the cross-national variations in the prevalence of informal employment with the variables levels of tax rates …-liberal approach. Instead, lower (not higher) levels of informal employment are found to be associated with higher levels of regulation …

the Soviet era, in post-Soviet societies by studying its role in graduate employment recruitment. Design … analysed through 85 face-to-face structured interviews with those who in the past seven years have sought employment after …

found to engage in such quasi-formal employment, receiving on average one quarter of their gross salary on an undeclared … basis. Multi-level logistic regression analysis reveals that quasi-formal employment is significantly more prevalent in East … dichotomous depiction of employment as either formal or informal therefore needs to be transcended and a finer-grained continuum …