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Re-Thinking Informal Entrepreneurship : Commercial or Social Entrepreneurs?

Williams, Colin - 2015

involving face-to-face interviews with 298 informal entrepreneurs in Ukraine, the finding is that they are not all commercially …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009941

Re-Thinking the Nature of the Informal Economy : Some Lessons from Ukraine

Williams, Colin; Round, John - 2015

in Ukraine that unravels the heterogeneous forms of work in the informal economy, the finding is that although each and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130755

Tackling Enterprises Operating in the Informal Sector in Developing and Transition Economies : A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal Policy Approach

Williams, Colin - 2015

Over the past decade or so, there has been widespread recognition that a large and growing proportion of the global workforce is employed in informal sector enterprises. To explain this, neo-liberals contend that enterprises operate in the informal sector due to high taxes, public sector...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130746

Rethinking the Nature of Community Economies : Some Lessons from Post-Soviet Ukraine

Williams, Colin - 2015

is applied through a survey of 600 households in Ukraine. The outcome is to reveal that just as multifarious economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009936

Beyond a ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ Approach in Central and Eastern Europe : Some Lessons from Ukraine

Williams, Colin - 2015

Ukraine used capitalist and non-capitalist economic practices in their coping tactics. Findings – This reveals not only the … limited use of capitalist practices in the everyday coping tactics of households in Ukraine but also how an array of non … up the future of post-Soviet Ukraine to other possible trajectories than simply some variety of capitalism …

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Work Organization in Post-Socialist Societies

Williams, Colin - 2015

This paper evaluates critically the meta-narrative that capitalism is becoming more powerful, expansive, hegemonic and totalising as it stretches its tentacles ever wider across the globe and penetrates deeper into each and every corner of daily life. Reviewing the ways in which an emerging...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009540

Surviving Post-Socialism : Coping Practices in East-Central Europe

Williams, Colin - 2015

This paper evaluates the coping practices adopted by households in East-Central Europe following the collapse of the socialist bloc. Drawing upon the New Democracies Barometer (NDB) survey, it is here revealed that although a common assumption is that post-socialist societies have undergone a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009546

Tackling Informal Employment in Developing and Transition Economies : A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal Approach

Williams, Colin - 2017

This paper evaluates critically the argument of neo-liberals that informal employment is a result of high taxes, public sector corruption and too much state interference in the free market and that the consequent solution is to reduce taxes, public sector corruption and the regulatory burden via...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967082

Supporting The Transition From The Informal to Formal Economy In Azerbaijan

Williams, Colin; Nazarov, Ilkin - 2022

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082266

Shadow Economy, Rent-Seeking Activities and the Perils of Reinforcement of the Rule of Law

Vostroknutova, Katia - 2003

An economy is considered where a possibility to seek rents (a particular case of this activity is corruption) exists along with production. A producer is able to hide part of his output from both bribery and taxation. It is shown that the presence of a shadow sector has different effects in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079491

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