Informal employment: identifying, place and role, vectors of transformation. A discourse at the 14th annual international conference of the European network on regional labour market monitoring (EN RLMM) (Moskva, 3-4 October 2019)

The article deals with conceptions of the nature and reasons of informal employment presented in the reports at the International Confrence of EN RLMM in Moskva, 3-4 October 2019. The Object of the article are workers who are not members of the staff of organizations or are engaged in those without signing an official labour contract and thus representing informal employment in official and latent economy. The Subject of the Article are labour and business relations regulating informal employment in various countries. The Purpose of the Article is comprehending differences in economic relations of informal employment in the international scientific and practical association, exposing discussion problems and outlining possible directions of rapprochment of scientific positions in identifying informal employment. The Main Results of the Article consist of the review of the ideas of the speakers of the conference in question on the problems of economic essence of informal employment and the classifications of the present-day standard and non-standard employment suggested by them.