Shahid, M.S., Rodgers, P. and Williams, C.C. orcid.org/0000-0002-3610-1933 (2017) Evaluating the participation of an ethnic minority group in informal employment: a product of exit or exclusion? Review of Social Economy, 75 (4). pp. 468-488. ISSN 0034-6764
Abstract
This paper critically evaluates competing explanations for the participation of ethnic minority groups in informal employment. These interpret their participation either through a structuralist lens arising out of “exclusion” from formal employment or through a neo-liberal and/or post-structuralist lens driven by voluntary “exit” from formal institutions. To evaluate critically these competing explanations, this paper reports a survey of the experiences of Pakistani immigrants in informal employment in Sheffield, including fifty face-to-face interviews and two focus groups. The findings highlight informal employment amongst this Pakistani ethnic minority group is neither universally driven by exclusion nor exit. Instead, some participate mostly due to exclusion, others mostly for exit rationales and some for a combination of the two, with different mixtures across different groups and types of informal employment. The outcome is a call for greater appreciation of the multifarious character of undeclared work and a move beyond simplistic explanations and policy responses.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | informal; employment; ethnic, minorities; undeclared |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2016 14:22 |
Last Modified: | 15 May 2024 09:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/00346764.2016.1269941 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:109221 |
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