Making It Underground: Comparative Material on the Informal Sector in Western Market Economies.

Portes, Alejandro; Sassen-Koob, Saskia

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ERIC Number: EJ356136

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Publication Date: 1987

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Making It Underground: Comparative Material on the Informal Sector in Western Market Economies.

Portes, Alejandro; Sassen-Koob, Saskia

American Journal of Sociology, v93 n1 p30-61 Jul 1987

This paper examines the informal economy and its relationship to commonly held theories of industrial development. Evidence is presented which contradicts the prevailing assumption that informal economies will disappear with the advance of modern industrial growth. (Author/JDH)

Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economics, Foreign Countries, Industrialization, Industry, Modernization, Poverty, Sociology

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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