Informal employment in advanced economies [[electronic resource] /] / guest editor: Colin C. Williams

• Pubblicazione: Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (93 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Labor economics; Personnel management
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WilliamsColin C
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Informal employment in advanced economies
• ISBN: 1-280-70559-0; 9786610705597; 1-84663-155-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450717903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II