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Titolo: | Informal employment in advanced economies / / guest editor: Colin C. Williams |
Pubblicazione: | Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (93 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.361 |
Soggetto topico: | Labor economics |
Personnel management | |
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.: | 9910819791803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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