The aim of this introductory article is to provide a critical overview of how informality has
been defined and measured, together with selected findings on its extent and character, and …

THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND POVERTY: EVIDENCE AND POLICY REVIEW Page 1
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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 …

This paper critically evaluates the popular structuralist representation of informal workers as
marginalized populations who work as dependent employees out of economic necessity …

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants
moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building …

Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, a small sub-stream of literature has proposed
that participation in the informal economy arises from the lack of alignment of a society's …

This chapter tries to integrate different approaches towards conceptualising informality by
distinguishing two major strands of the debate about formality and informality. Much of the …

After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education
systems in preparing students for the" real world" changed. Though young people were …

This article reveals how many formal employees in the European Union receive from their
formal employer not only a declared wage but also an undeclared “envelope wage” …

This paper re-evaluates the explanations for informal work in third world cities. Until now,
informal work has been theorized either as a residue (modernisation), by-product of …