...Appendix – Findings of Empirical Articles on the Impact of STRs^a Hotel industry housing informality peer-to-peer regulations short-term rentals 1. Introduction The benefits of peer-to-peer ( P2P ) accommodation are evident...

... entrepreneurship as an alternative to survive in Brazil’s oversaturated market, which was historically characterized by informality and unemployment. Platform labour young workers unemployment informality entrepreneurship Brazil Introduction Based on ethnographic sociological research conducted in São Paulo...

...Abstract This opening chapter introduces key debates in relation to informality in policymaking, laying the theoretical and conceptual groundwork for the individual empirical chapters, beginning with a provocation for how informality can alternatively be understood. Through illustrating where gaps...

...Abstract This chapter examines the informal through the accounts of a public official who had a leading role in re-making the administration of community grants in her local authority during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter explores what happens when there is a rupture...

...Diplomats in Brussels do lots of things that can be considered informal. Thinking back to the vignette in the beginning, they interrupt set agendas to take phone calls in the hallway, eat candy during meetings and walk with each other to takeaway coffee spots. Rather than surveying any activity...

...This chapter thus attempts to redraw a picture of bureaucratic work as a lively hub of knowledge exchange and ad hoc solutions at the street level. Here, informal practices are characterised by routine just as much as formal practices are, with the potential to become formalised or at least...

... practice, connecting temporalities, spaces, knowledge and people. Within its actions, the informal and the formal are entangled. Informality institutional talk policy work collaborative governance ethnography relationality What I have purposively left in the middle thus far is whether or how catching...

... message that certain information should remain concealed from prying ears. The incident further propelled my curiosity about his underlying strategies, making me linger longer. Post-interview, I observed Singh, who was perched under the looming water tank, engrossed in his newspaper while a few locals...

... also on post-field reflections. How office space was occupied and utilised is presented through a description of the movements of a single figure, the branch manager. The significance for our understanding of informality accrues through his use of visible and less-visible locations and how this relates...

..., and instead put the emphasis on the dynamics of exclusion and the “lumpen economies” in which the poor subsist, and (b) nuance the perspectives on the relations between prison and community from the point of view of the peripheral South, marked by high rates of exclusion, informality, and an economy strongly...

... attributed to participation and mobility by different actors. The chapter closes with a reflection on what this means for participatory mobility planning in Brazil but which may apply to similar regions in the global south. Participation mobility planning informality global south Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1...

...; Uruguay, 133rd; and Paraguay, 118th). The high informality of the Peruvian economy is also similar to other Latin-American economies; Peru is among the economies with the highest rate of labor informality in the region – and also the world – with around 70% of its labor force concentrated in the informal...

... are resented by firms and one of the key beliefs of institutional economics is the positive association between regulatory burden indicators and transaction costs or costs of compliance. For instance, institutional theory posits that informal entrepreneurship is an outcome of cumbersome regulatory burden...

...Abstract I evaluate how the tax reform of 2012 reduced informality in Colombia both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, I develop a labor market model and obtain simulations indicating that the reform should reduce informality significantly. Empirically, I obtain difference-in-difference...

...This chapter examines the notion of spatial justice and its applicability in the context of informality. In the first part it examines the concept of informal urbanism in the context of informal settlements and experiences with upgrading programmes. Drawing on critical evaluations of some...

...Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the impact that changes in minimum wage and the main income transfer programmes have had on the economic participation of the population and the informal sector in Argentina. The magnitude and importance that both policies have had...

...Abstract Purpose The aim of this chapter is to advance an understanding of the value of informal entrepreneurial activities in relation to context using an institutional perspective arguing that heterogeneity in institutional embeddedness affects the value individuals attach to entrepreneurial...

... boundaries for studying interactions. Fig. 1 Five Different Aggregation Levels of Relationship Interactions. Source:  Holmlund (2004 , p. 281). Actions on the first level may include any kind of exchange element and therefore relate to products, money, information, or social contacts...

...We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage noncompliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approach allows us to examine (i...

...Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not temporary. The degree of persistence of informality in the labor market might be due to different...