The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes

By A. Portes. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Matching opportunities with resources: A framework for analysing (migrant) entrepreneurship from a mixed embeddedness perspective (2010, background): “Informal production on a more permanent base requires a specific kind of social embeddedness as trust is essential for economic transactions which are kept outside the books and where, hence, an appeal to the formal judicial system is not very likely (Portes 1994).”
Household Strategies: Their Conceptual Relevance and Analytical Scope in Social Research (2002, background): “People in marginal positions, peasants, small business and farm families or immigrant entrepreneurs were said to have ‘strategies’ in this sense (Redclift, 1986; Pile, 1991; Portes, 1994).”
Economic Transformation Outside the Law: Corruption, Trust in Public Institutions and the Informal Economy in Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (2006, background): “They are regulated instead by informal rules of exchange and social relationships (Portes, 1994; Wallace et al., 1999) or they are subject to criminal control”
Global village vs. small town: Understanding networks at the Base of the Pyramid (2010, neutral): “, tax evasion) (London & Hart, 2004; Portes, 1994).”
Staying Underground: Informal Work, Small Firms, and Employment Regulation in the United Kingdom (2007, background): “Whereas neo-liberalism sees underground entrepreneurs as a misbegotten creation of the state, proponents of the marginalization thesis (Castells & Portes, 1989; Portes, 1994) would switch much of the onus on to market forces.”
Entrepreneurs Operating in the Informal Economy: Necessity or Opportunity Driven? (2007, neutral): “…and sale of goods and services which are unregistered by, or hidden from the state for tax and/or benefit purposes but which are legal in all other respects (European Commission, 1998; Portes, 1994; Renooy et al., 2004; Small Business Council, 2004; Thomas, 1992; Williams and Windebank, 1998).”
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INFORMALIZATION (2010, background): “economic and social processes in Third World countries (Portes 1994).”
Female entrepreneurship in Africa: A review, trends, and future research directions (2021, background): “labour conditions, wages, and taxes, and employing undocumented workers (Kloosterman, van der Leun, & Rath, 1998; Portes, 1994).”