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...

To evaluate the prevalence in Eastern Europe of a little discussed illegitimate wage practice in which employers pay their formal employees both a declared wage and an undeclared ‘envelope wage’, an extensive survey involving 10,671 face-to-face interviews in eleven post-socialist societies...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The drivers of the informal economy -- Tax morale and informality in post-socialist contexts / Diana Traikova -- The many shades of the grey economy in Romania / Rodica Ianole-Colin, Colin Vâlsan, Elena Druic? -- Evaluating the perceptions and realities of...