Utilizing Informal Household-Work Substitutes along the US–Mexico Border: Evidence from South Texas

Pisani, Michael J.

doi:10.1080/08865655.2014.938970

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“…Pisani and colleagues extend the study of informality in South Texas, including sectoral studies of maids (Pisani and Yoskowitz, ), gardeners (Pisani and Yoskowitz, ), undocumented immigrant entrepreneurs (Pisani, ), and cross‐border informal entrepreneurs (Pisani, ; Pisani and Richardson, ). More broadly, Pisani and colleagues have studied labor markets (Pisani, ), informal consumption (Pisani, ), and informal economic systems (Pisani et al., ; Richardson and Pisani, ). Throughout these border studies, issues such as necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship, labor substitution, and medical, family, push and pull forces, and housing informality are considered.…”

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Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses

Pisani

Morales

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This study provides the first nationally representative portrait of unregistered (informal) Latino‐owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States. Methods We employ data from the 2018 Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative Survey of 4,024 U.S. LOBs. We estimate the determinants of unregistered LOBs through a set of independent variables derived from entrepreneur demographics/firm characteristics utilizing a binomial logistic regression to predict the odds of group membership between (un)registered LOBs. Results Approximately one‐third of LOBs across the United States operate as unregistered enterprises. We find that LOB firm registration is associated with higher levels of education of the entrepreneur and larger size of the LOB. We uncover further links between entrepreneur acculturation and gender, and firm product offering and clientele ethnicity, with firm registration. Conclusion For the first time, we are able to establish a quantitative baseline for informality and firm registration among LOBs using a nationally representative sample.

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Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses

Pisani

Morales

2020

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“…Speculation among researchers that older survey instruments may not be capturing the array of employment options that households and workers are using continues to be debated and discussed in recent forums. 4 Low-to-moderate income (LMI) communities in urban and rural locales have a history of enterprising and informal work activities, such as house cleaning and babysitting/child care (Pisani, 2014;Romero, 2011 and2002), elder care (Bookman and Krimbell, 2011) (Pisani and Yoskowitz, 2006), day labor (Gonzalez, 2007), flea markets (Mukhija and Loukaitou-Sideris, 2014) and yard sales (Haayen et al, 2015). Indeed, informal work activity and non-traditional paid work have historically been present across all types of occupations, geographies, and industries, not just among LMI or lower-skilled populations.…”

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Exploring Online and Offline Informal Work: Findings from the Enterprising and Informal Work Activities (EIWA) Survey

Robles

McGee

2016

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The growing prevalence of alternative work arrangements has accelerated with the rapidly evolving digital platform transformations in local and global markets (Kenny and Zysman, 2015 and. Although traditional (offline) informal paid work has always been a part of the labor sector (BLS-Contingent Worker Survey, 2005; GAO, 2015 and Katz and Krueger, 2016), the rise of online enabled paid work activities requires new approaches to measure this growing trend (Farrell and Greig, 2016;Gray et al, 2016;Sundararajan, 2016 andSchor, 2015). In the fourth quarter of 2015, the Federal Reserve Board conducted a nationally representative survey of adults 18 and older to track online and offline income-generating activities as well as their employment status during the six months prior to the surveys. Survey results indicate that 36 percent of respondents undertook informal paid work activities either as a complement to or as a substitute for more traditional and formal work arrangements. We explore the rationale behind respondents' participation in alternative work arrangements by setting questions that capture participant motives and attitudes towards informal offline and online paid work activities. Sixtyfive percent of qualified survey respondents indicate that a main reason for participating in informal work is to earn extra income.

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Ethnic Enterprise Informality and Entrepreneurship in a Minority-Majority Region in the United States: Latinos in South Texas

Pisani

2018

Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship

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Utilizing Informal Household-Work Substitutes along the US–Mexico Border: Evidence from South Texas

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses

Informality and Latino‐Owned Businesses: A National Portrait of Unregistered Latino‐Owned Businesses

Exploring Online and Offline Informal Work: Findings from the Enterprising and Informal Work Activities (EIWA) Survey

Ethnic Enterprise Informality and Entrepreneurship in a Minority-Majority Region in the United States: Latinos in South Texas

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