Region: United States of America

‘An area that governs itself ’: Informality, uncertainty and the management of street vending in New York CityPlanning Theory

Laws governing street vending in New York City are confusing, convoluted, at times contradictory and difficult to enforce with any sort of...

Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers

Informal Urbanism in the USA: New Challenges for Theory and PracticePlanning Theory and Practice

Devlin describes the case of immigrant food vendors in an area of Brooklyn and how as they became more popular with better off New Yorkers...

Representing the part-time and contingent workforce: Challenges for unions and public policy

Research on Informal Work in the U.S.: Emerging Concepts and Measurement

Background memo prepared for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Harvard University, October 31 ‐ November...

Measuring Nonstandard Employment in the United States

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Measuring Non-Standard and Informal Employment in the United States Using Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Employment Change and Economic Vulnerability in the US

Sociological Inquiry

Abstract: Most research on the informal economy concentrates on how the informal economy operates at the international and regional levels...

Home-Based Work and Women’s Labor Force DecisionsJournal of Labor Economics

Abstract: Home‐based work differs from other employment because the work site is the home itself. This difference means that the fixed costs...