Informal economy - Topics

Cash-in-hand work keeps a lot of jobless people fed without ever showing up in a count Roughly 60 percent of the world's workers are informally employed Do repair cafes extend product life or just make people feel better? What is the informal sector's share when official statistics stop counting? How do migrant crews change wage levels on a big site? Cash in hand work leaves millions without pension contributions or accident cover Should illegal activity and the shadow economy be imputed into official GDP at all? Do temp agency workers cost less than permanent staff once turnover is counted? E commerce is wiping out informal retail jobs faster than formal ones Gig drivers are classified as independent contractors in most American states Why do street vendors operate without licenses even when the fines are heavy? Why do subsistence farming and unpaid household services never show up in GDP? Paying annotators by the task: what that does to the quality of training data How does the gig economy classify workers to avoid payroll taxes? Domestic workers and nannies are excluded from most labor law protections How do insurers detect staged accidents and inflated claims Where does the recycled plastic from your bin actually end up? Gold farming turned in-game currency into an export industry worked by offshore shifts in low-wage countries Care work and cleaning paid in cash: how the biggest service employers stay invisible in the data Why do governments tolerate informal street trading during economic downturns? Is a taxi driver who takes cash rides an entrepreneur or an evader? What makes an entrepreneur stay informal instead of registering the business? Taxing informal income means finding people who are paid in cash What counts as a recession in an economy where most work is informal? The tax gap: audit rates and the shadow economy Counterfeit detection and the fight against paper money forgery How short term rentals squeeze long term housing supply When cash disappears does the measured economy get bigger or just more visible? The underground economy can reach a fifth of GDP in some countries and never appears in the statistics