The Informal Economy: Exploring Drivers and Practices

ISBN-13: 9780367890384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Ioana Horodnic; Peter Rodgers; Colin Williams

Opis

This book’s aim is to examine the nature and persistence of informal work and entrepreneurship, across a variety of empirical settings, from within the developed world, the developing world and within transformation economies within post-socialist spaces.

Spis treści

 

Part 1: The Drivers of the Informal Economy

1. Tax Morale and Informality in Post-Socialist Contexts

Diana Traikova

2. The Many Shades of the Grey Economy in Romania

Rodica Ianole-Călin, Călin Vâlsan, Elena Druică

3. Evaluating the Perceptions and Realities of Envelope Wage Arrangements Among Students in Moldova and Romania

Ioana A. Horodnic, Colin C. Williams

4.Book-Launching Informalities on the Right Side of a Nineteenth-Century Walnut Table

Marcello Mollica

5. Assessing the Frequency of Informal Payments for Health Services in Lithuania

Adrian V. Horodnic, Claudia I. Ciobanu, Colin C. Williams, Peter Rodgers

6. Labour Market Institutions and Undeclared Work: A Multilevel Analysis of Central and Eastern European Countries

Adriana AnaMaria Davidescu

Part 2: The Nature/Character of the Informal Economy

7. The Role of Informal Work in the Livelihood Strategies of U.S. Households

Emily J. Wornell, Leif Jensen, Ann Tickamyer

8. From Goods to Emotions: The Transformation of Informal Practices in the Republic of Georgia

Costanza Curro

9. Looking for Freedom in Grey Areas: Approaches to Informality as a Space For Negotiating Goals of Neoliberalism in Developing the Cooperation Sector

Liga Rudzite

10. Gifting Practices in Informal Trade in Response to Elites’ Rules and State Regulations on the Myanmar-Thailand Border

Busarin Lertchavalitsakul

11. Bazaar and Local Governance: The Case of Legalizing Informal Economic Practices in the Batkhela bazaar, Pakistan

Muhammad Salman Khan

12. Intrapreneurship and Capital Accumu

O autorze

Ioana A. Horodnic is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania.

Peter Rodgers is a Lecturer in Strategy and International Business at Sheffield University Management School, UK.

Colin Williams is Professor of Public Policy at Sheffield University Management School, UK.

Legha Momtazian has been a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Sheffield University Management School, UK