This book deals with the legal and ethical aspects of disguised agency employment and illegal work, with particular emphasis on the protection of foreign workers. In the first part of the book, the author analyses the legal regulation of agency employment in the Czech Republic, including...

This chapter transcends the dualistic depiction of businesses, employment relationships, and workers as always either formal or informal. Instead, many are revealed to operate at varying levels of (in)formalisation. There are different degrees of declaration to, or registration with, the...

The integration of refugees in host countries' labor markets is complicated by structural barriers, missing formal qualification and language deficiencies. This leads to widespread concern that refugees may end up in informal and precarious employment relationships. Empirical evidence on the...

This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs and then link it with the employment status of individuals and the...