The bottom-up power of informal entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amors, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti -- Estimating the size of the shadow economies of 162 countries using MIMIC method / Friedrich Schneider -- The components and determinants of the shadow economy :...

Introduction / Arnis Sauka, Friedrich Schneider and Colin C. Williams -- 1. The bottom up power of informal entrepreneurship / José Ernesto Amorós, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Oscar Cristi and Maria Minniti -- 2. Estimating the size of the shadow economies of 162 countries using mimic method /...

Portraying how entrepreneurs often start out conducting some or all of their trade on an 'off-the-books' basis and how many continue to do so once they become established, this book provides the first detailed account of the vast and ubiquitous hidden enterprise culture existing in the...

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...