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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
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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
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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
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Explaining Participation in Off-the-Books Entrepreneurship in Ukraine : A Gendered Evaluation
Williams, Colin - 2015
face-to-face interviews with 331 entrepreneurs in Ukraine during 2005-06, of whom 90 per cent operated partially or wholly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010337
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Workplace Crime and the Informal Economy in Ukraine : Employee and Employer Perspectives
Williams, Colin - 2015
those charged with economic reform in Ukraine must face.Originality/value – It is one of the first studies to explore these … issues in Ukraine using a variety of research methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010359
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Entrepreneurship and the Informal Economy : A Study of Ukraine’s Hidden Enterprise Culture
Williams, Colin; Round, John - 2015
-to-face structured interviews conducted in Ukraine in late 2005 and early 2006. Analyzing the 331 entrepreneurs identified (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130751
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010308
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Out of the Shadows : A Classification of Economies by the Size and Character of Their Informal Sector
Williams, Colin - 2015
Given that 60 per cent of the global workforce is in the informal sector, this article develops a typology that classifies economies according to, firstly, where different countries sit on a continuum of informalization and, secondly, the character of their informal sectors. This is then applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009469
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A Critical Evaluation of the Policy Options Towards the Undeclared Economy
Williams, Colin - 2015
To evaluate critically the policy options available for tackling the undeclared economy, this paper commences by evaluating the implications of four hypothetical policy choices, namely doing nothing, de-regulating the declared economy, eradicating the undeclared economy, or moving undeclared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009475