The Informal Economy and Employment in Brazil

Latin America, Modernization, and Social Changes

Bibliographic Data

ID19903728
AuthorsDiego Coletto (0000-0003-0275-1716, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueInformal Economy and Employment in Brazil (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230113992
OpenAlexW392872200
Open LibraryOL34537119M
ISBN9780230113992
LanguageEN
Citations received21

The informal economy did not disappear, nor did it decrease. Despite early predictions of its eventual demise, it has not only grown worldwide, but also emerged in new forms and unexpected places. This book presents some in-depth cases regarding specific informal economic activities in Brazil. Using an ethnographic approach, the Author shows the social and economic processes that allow the informal economy to be reproduced, revealing the complex and heterogeneous relations between the formal and the informal parts of economy. Throughout detailed descriptions of informality in action, the book provides interesting starting-points to investigate the renewed dilemmas of the informal economy and its linkages with globalization processes

Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Garbage · Informal sector · Latin Americans · Modernization theory · Political science · Social economy · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Taxation and Compliance Studies · Informal sector (Economics) · Labor supply · Social change · South America

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