Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and explore the reasons for workers migrating from rural to urban area. The authors also explore and enumerate various reasons why the migrants choose to work informally and study whether...

This review article provides an overview of literature on the structural shift in the economy from primary and secondary sector towards the tertiary sector. We attempt to revisit the developments of the tertiary sector and its implications on the Indian economy as a whole. While analyzing the...

This paper highlights the disaster costs which exist in the form of raids by authorities on informal service firms periodically. A disaster raid can cause irrefutable damage to household owners with monetary losses from loss of goods and eviction from the site location that makes it impossible...