International Journal of Manpower: Volume 27 Issue 6

Estimating the size of the Cypriot underground economy: A comparison with European experience

Meryem Duygun Fethi, Sami Fethi, Salih Turan Katircioglu

To measure the size of underground economy and the amount of tax evasion in Cyprus by employing monetary and non‐monetary approaches over the period 1960‐2003 and to compare the…

Harnessing the hidden enterprise culture of advanced economies

Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank

In the majority (third) world, informal employment has been long viewed as an asset to be harnessed rather than a hindrance to development. The purpose of this paper is to show…

Tackling informal employment: the case of southern Italy

Liliana Bàculo

The purpose of this paper os to reveal the complex characteristics of informal employment and the difficulties of implementing policies to counteract this phenomenon.

Precarious migrant knowledge workers: new entrepreneurial identities in Naples, Italy

Nicholas DeMaria Harney

The purpose of this paper is to examine migrants working as inter‐cultural mediators at the interface of the formal and informal economies in southern Italy so as to question the…

Enterprising futures or dead‐end jobs? Women, self employment and social exclusion

Susan Marlow

Since the late 1980s, much attention has been afforded to the notion of social exclusion and how governments might address this problem. One such solution has been the…

Informal employment in advanced economies

Colin C. Williams