The informal economy consists of economic activities that occur outside of formal
institutional boundaries but which remain within informal institutional boundaries for large …

This interdisciplinary review paper explores linkages between access to energy, women's
empowerment and entrepreneurship. This will be discussed in the context of the informal …

Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional
wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. Forbearance as Redistribution …

Particularly in develo** countries, there is a gap between written law and behavior.
Comparative research emphasizes that laws go unenforced due to resource constraints or …

Están quienes creen que los gobiernos progresistas de principios del siglo XXI en América
Latina representaron un avance socioeconómico indiscutible para masas de personas …

Informality: Exit and Exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes
and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but …

The concept of social capital is arguably the most successful “export” from sociology into the
public domain in recent years. Ironically, that feat was not accomplished by the major …

Economic activity taking place within the informal sector—traditionally defined as activity
unregulated by law but governed by custom or personal ties—represents an emerging …

The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent
texts have chronicled economic sociology's nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the …

There is a considerable body of academic and activist research that studies the prevalence
of precariousness in contemporary societies. It goes by many names that are often …