Table of contents - Special Issue: Integrating perspectives in the informal economy
Guest Editors: Jason Heyes, Joanna Shapland
From the informal economy to the meaning of informality: Developing theory on firms and their workers
Monder Ram, Paul Edwards, Trevor Jones, Maria Villares-VarelaThe purpose of this paper is to assess ways in which informality can be understood and reviews an emerging area of management scholarship. The origins and nature of informality…
How close are formal and informal work?
Joanna Shapland, Jason HeyesRecent changes in the UK to the regulation and modes of work in the formal and informal economies are considered. Research in this field has tended to remain in silos (treating…
Informal employment in the poor European periphery
Birgit Pfau-EffingerDuring the transition from socialist to post-socialist regimes, many Central and Eastern Europe societies have developed a broad sector of informal work. This development has…
Practices of subjectivity: the informal economies and the subaltern rebellion
Pietro SaittaThe purpose of this paper is to explore the links between “informal economies” and the concept of “resistance.” The author argues that the petty illegalities of the dominated and…
Formality and informality in an Indian urban waste economy
Barbara Harriss-WhiteThe purpose of this paper is to contribute original evidence about the conditions for formal and informal contracts for commodities and labour in the waste economy of a South…
Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Ana Carolina Ogando, Sally Roever, Michael RoganThis paper explores the perceptions and experiences of women and men who work as informal waste collectors in four different cities. The purpose of this paper is to map out how…
Inheritance tax compliance – earmarking with normative value principles
Jennifer Anna Stark, Erich KirchlerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of inheritance tax behavior with normative value principles and factors found relevant for income tax compliance…
Economic crisis and “white informal economy” – a slippery slope
Bojan Dobovšek, Boštjan SlakThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of studying the quasi-legal forms of informal economic behaviour that we know as the white informal economy. The paper…
Great expectations but little evidence: policing money laundering
Antoinette VerhageThe purpose of this paper is to map anti-money laundering policy and its impact on money laundering. The AML system is discussed from the perspective of the compliance officer…
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- Prof Colin Williams