Comparing post-socialist employment 'informalization' in the Czech Republic and Hungary

Abstract

Post-socialist transformation has entailed important changes in employment relations. In this chapter, I aim to establish that employment'informalization'can be understood as an emergent process. In so doing, I develop a complexity framework in order to explain how processes of employment informalization are emerging differently in Hungary and the Czech Republic through interactions of within-firm dynamics, network effects and government economic policy. Complexity is defined as self-organization. My framework relies particularly on co-evolution and co-determination of institutions and individuals.