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Part II: The lived experience of transition
by Peter Rodgers, John Round, Colin C. Williams
The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Structure of the book
Part I: (Re)theorising transition economies
2. Re-visiting the recurring question of transition
Introduction: the durability of transition theory
The Soviet Union and its informal economies
Informality in the former Soviet Union
The Soviet Union’s collapse and the rise of the Washington Consensus
The end of transition?
Conclusions
3. Re-theorising the economic
Introduction
The formalisation thesis
The marketisation thesis
Towards a formal market economy: positive or negative?
The formal market economy: natural or constructed?
The formal market economy: a delusion?
De-centring the formal market economy
A proxy measure: evaluating the shift towards full(er) employment
More direct measures of the permeation of the formal market economy
The role of informal economies in post-Soviet societies
Modernisation theory: the informal sector as a residue
Structuralist theory: the informal economy as a by-product of the formal economy
Neo-liberal theory: informal economies as an alternative to the formal economy
Post-structuralist theory: the diverse economies perspective
Conclusions: re-figuring the economic in post-Soviet societies
4. Beyond the formal-informal economy dualism: unpacking the diverse economies of post-Soviet societies
Beyond the formal–informal economy dichotomy
A total social organisation of labour approach
Evaluating the diverse economies of Ukraine
Beyond market hegemony: unravelling the plurality of labour practices in Ukraine
Evaluating the diverse economies in Moscow
Mapping the plurality of labour practices in Moscow
Conclusions
Part II: The lived experience of transition
5. The role of the informal in the formal sphere
Introduction
Participation in formal employment in post-Soviet/socialist economies
The illusion of formalisation: the prevalence of quasi-formal employment
The extent of quasi-formal employment in post-Soviet/socialist societies
Relationship between national tax rates and quasi-formal employment
Relationship between state intervention and quasi-formal employment
Lived experiences of quasi-formal employment
Crime and corruption in the formal economy: informal payments from cradle to grave
The informal economies of kindergartens
Informality in the formal school system
Informality in the university system
Finding employment through connections
Entering and surviving a ‘closed’ labour market
Informality in the formal healthcare system
Conclusions
6. Informal employment
Introduction
Participation in informal employment in post-Soviet/socialist societies
Indirect methods for measuring informal employment
Direct survey methods
Prevalence and nature of informal employment in Ukraine
Informal waged employment in Ukraine
Informal self-employment in Ukraine
Prevalence and nature of informal employment in Moscow
Informal waged employment in Moscow
Informal self-employment in Moscow
In transition to the formal economy?
Conclusions
7. One-to-one unpaid labour, reimbursed family work and paid favours
Introduction
One-to-one unpaid labour
Participation in one-to-one unpaid exchanges in Ukraine
Nature of one-to-one unpaid exchanges in Ukraine
Prevalence of one-to-one unpaid exchanges in Moscow
Nature of one-to-one unpaid exchanges in Moscow
Reimbursed family labour
Reimbursed family labour in Ukraine
Reimbursed family labour in Moscow
Paid favours
Paid favours in Ukraine
Nature of paid favours in Ukraine
Paid favours in Moscow
Nature of paid favours in Moscow
Conclusions
8. Formal and informal unpaid employment
Introduction
Formal unpaid employment
Formal unpaid employment in the private and public sector
Formal volunteering in post-Soviet societies
Formal unpaid labour in Ukraine
Formal unpaid labour in Moscow
Lived experiences of formal unpaid employment in the private and public sectors in Ukraine and Moscow
Lived experiences of formal unpaid labour in the third sector
Informal unpaid employment
Extent of informal unpaid employment in Ukraine and Moscow
Character of informal unpaid employment in Ukraine and Moscow
Conclusions
9. The internal economies of the household
Introduction
Perspectives towards self-provisioning
Views on the prevalence of self-provisioning
Explaining self-provisioning
Evaluating self-provisioning in Ukraine
Motives for self-provisioning in Ukraine
Evaluating self-provisioning in Moscow
Rationales for self-provisioning in Moscow
The role of the dacha in household economies
Conclusions
10. Conclusions
Introduction
(Re)theorising transition economies
The lived experiences of transition
The role of informal economies in the post-Soviet world
Bibliography
Index
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