LEADER 04435nam 22006015 450 001 9910416130503321 005 20200826195922.0 010 $a981-15-7428-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-7428-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011401145 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6319927 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-7428-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011401145 100 $a20200826d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConceptualizing the Ubiquity of Informal Economy Work$b[electronic resource] /$fby Errol D?Souza 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (102 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Economics,$x2191-5504 311 $a981-15-7427-8 327 $aChapter 1: When will formality become the norm? -- Chapter 2: Self-employment and Human Capital -- Chapter 3: Informal and Formal Employment in a Liberalizing Economy -- Chapter 4: Migrants and Informal Casual Labour Markets -- Chapter 5: Wage Disparity and Human Capital Accumulation -- Chapter 6: The Pervasiveness of Self-employment -- Chapter 7: Secure Livelihoods. 330 $aThis book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment. Informal employment in unregistered enterprises or of workers without employment contracts or social protection contributions constitutes 88 per cent of employment in India and is a ubiquitous feature of the economy. A large proportion of informal employment (86 per cent) is self-employment and this category of employment has been neglected in the literature on work and development which has focused instead on wage employment that is a contract for work with another person or enterprise. Another striking feature of such economies which the book engages with is that, as they have liberalized, informal employment in the registered enterprises or formal part of the economy has grown. The informal sector has been analyzed by recourse to two major approaches. One is a public economics framework that underlines how informal enterprises evolve as they trade-off reduced access to public services such as contract enforcement with the payment of taxes and regulatory compliances. This book extends this literature by focusing on the access to formal sector credit and its potential for financing productive enterprises as a factor that is considered when an enterprise contemplates whether to incorporate or not. The second leg of the literature takes a labour perspective and emphasizes mandated labour costs such as hiring and firing costs, benefits, and minimum wages as considerations when deciding on whether to engage labour on a formal or informal basis. The book broadens this literature by taking into account how the human capital of workers and the monitoring costs of ensuring that workers are adhering to the terms of negotiated contracts inform the decision with regard to informality. The book will resonate with those academics and policy makers who are engaged with the conundrums of development. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Economics,$x2191-5504 606 $aLabor economics 606 $aEconomic policy 606 $aPublic finance 606 $aIndustrial sociology 606 $aLabor Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W37000 606 $aEconomic Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W34010 606 $aPublic Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W34000 606 $aSociology of Work$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22240 615 0$aLabor economics. 615 0$aEconomic policy. 615 0$aPublic finance. 615 0$aIndustrial sociology. 615 14$aLabor Economics. 615 24$aEconomic Policy. 615 24$aPublic Economics. 615 24$aSociology of Work. 676 $a330 700 $aD?Souza$b Errol$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0945304 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910416130503321 996 $aConceptualizing the Ubiquity of Informal Economy Work$92134039 997 $aUNINA