TY - BOOK AU - Elgin, Ceyhun TI - Routledge handbook of the informal economy SN - 9781032441801 PY - 2025/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Syndicalisation KW - Labor unions organizing KW - Business and economics N2 - Delve into the intricate landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of Informal Economy, a groundbreaking volume that transcends conventional economic analysis by contextualizing it within a broader regulatory and social framework. This comprehensive handbook offers cutting-edge categorical, thematic, and regional analyses of the informal, or shadow, economy. An esteemed international ensemble of contributors draws on diverse economic perspectives, exploring a spectrum of definitions and measures, including household, firm-level, and employment-based metrics, alongside perceptional and model-based estimates. Employing a variety of econometric and methodological approaches, the volume provides both regional and global estimates of the informal economy's extent ER -