Negotiating welfare with the informalizing state: Formal and informal practices among engineers in post-Soviet Azerbaijan

Journal of Eurasian Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-33

  Sayfutdinova, Leyla ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Azerbaijan; Engineers; Informality; Post socialism; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927653706     PISSN: 18793665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euras.2014.08.002     Document Type: Article

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