Informal Employment in Advanced Economies: Implications for Work and Welfare

1. Introduction Part I: Examining informal employment: methods and theory 2. Methods of researching informal employment 3. Theorising informal employment Part II: Socio-spatial divisions of informal employment 4. Employment Status and Informal employment 5. Gender and informal employment 6. Ethnicity, immigration and informal employment 7. Spatial divisions of informal employment 8. Informal employment in developing nations Part III: What is to be done about informal employment? Evaluating the policy options 9. Regulating informal employment 10. De-regulating formal employment 11. Informal employment and the New economics 12. Conclusions: Re-placing informal employment in the advanced economies