“…In the last few years, considerable advances have been made in unravelling the multifarious character of the informal sector across Central and Eastern Europe Polese 2014, 2015;Polese 2014Polese , 2016Williams et al 2013). Until now, however, these studies have largely focused upon those working in informal sector, analysing the diverse array of types of work conducted, ranging from exploitative waged employment through well-paid forms of self-employment to paid favours (Williams 2014(Williams , 2015a, the multifarious demographic and socio-economic characteristics of informal workers and businesses (Davies and Polese 2015;Kukk and Staehr 2014;Likic-Brboric et al 2013;Lukiyanova 2015; Putni š and Sauka 2015; Wallace and Latcheva 2006), and the diverse motives of those working in the informal economy (Morris and Polese 2014).…”