Who participates in the different types of informal work and why?

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Chapter 6 in A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy, 2023, pp 128-158 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Until now, most literature on who engages in the informal economy and their reasons for doing so has examined the informal economy as a uniform unseparated whole. This chapter examines who engages in each type of informal work and their motives. Throughout this chapter, two key conceptualisations are evaluated. On the one hand, and in relation to who engages, the widely held marginalisation thesis is evaluated that it is groups marginalised from the formal labour market. On the other hand, and in relation to their rationales, whether participation is largely necessity-driven or due to a desire to exit the formal economy is evaluated. This is examined both for each of the heterogeneous kinds of informal work supplied as well as for purchasers of goods and services in the informal economy.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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