Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, a small sub-stream of literature has proposed that participation in the informal economy arises from the lack of alignment of a society's formal institutions (i.e. its codified laws and regulations) with its informal institutions (i.e. the norms,...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theorising entrepreneurship in the informal sector -- An institutionalist perspective -- Determinants of institutional asymmetry -- Informal sector entrepreneurship in global perspective -- Prevalence of informal entrepreneurship -- Impacts of informal...

This paper provides an evidence-based evaluation of the competing ways of explaining and tackling the informal economy. Conventionally, participants have been viewed as rational economic actors who engage in the informal economy when the benefits outweigh the costs, and thus participation is...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theorising entrepreneurship in the informal sector -- An institutionalist perspective -- Determinants of institutional asymmetry -- Informal sector entrepreneurship in global perspective -- Prevalence of informal entrepreneurship -- Impacts of informal...