Informal employment in advanced economies / guest editor: Colin C. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Colin C., 1961-

Series:

International Journal of Manpower, an interdisciplinary journal on human resources, management and labour economics ; 27, no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor economics.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Informal employment can be defined as 'the paid production and sale of goods and services that are unregistered by, or hidden from, the state for tax, social security and/or labour law purposes but which are legal in all other respects' (Williams and Windebank, 1998: 4). It is now recognised that informal employment is growing in importance as economies develop. This recognition that informal employment is far from some vestige of a pre-capitalist past that is peripheral and dwindling, but is a strong and growing part of advanced economies, has resulted in recent years in a growing interest in

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Estimating the size of the Cypriot underground economy; Harnessing the hidden enterprise culture of advanced economies; Tackling informal employment: the case of southern Italy; Precarious migrant knowledge workers: new entrepreneurial identities in Naples, Italy; Enterprising futures or dead-end jobs? Women, self employment and social exclusion;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610705597

9781280705595

1280705590

9781846631559

1846631556

OCLC:

77273995