Despite the widespread assumption that informal employment is more prevalent amongst those not in the formal labour market, there have been no evaluations of the extent and nature of informal employment amongst the student population, who are in most nations a prominent group of those not in...

Drawing upon the results of 26,659 face-to-face interviews in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU-27), the aim of this paper is to evaluate its varying magnitude and whether such work is mostly wage-based (of an envelope wage or undeclared variety) or own-account work (of a...

Contents: 1. Introduction / Nick Williams and Tim Vorley -- Part I : The resilience of entrepreneurs, industrial sectors and cities -- 2. Strategies for resilience in entrepreneurship: building resources for small business survival after a crisis / Rachel Doern -- 3. The resilience of...

Contents: 1. Introduction to Productivity Perspectives (1) / Philip McCann and Tim Vorley -- 2. Productivity perspectives : observations from the UK and the international arena (18) / Philip McCann -- 3. Measuring productivity (48) / Vania Sena -- 4. FDI, capital and investment markets (78) /...