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Colin C. Williams

@colincwilliams1.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor. Interested in informal economy, undeclared work. #FBPE #RejoinEU

Colin H. Williams FLSW is a senior research associate at the VHI, l St Edmund's College, the University of Cambridge, UK. He was formerly a research professor in sociolinguistics, and later an honorary professor in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University. .. more

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Colin C. Williams @colincwilliams1.bsky.social · Jan 20

The trust factor that leads us to pay our taxes and social contributions, and comply with labour laws.

What influences our level of trust?

#ShadowsprojectMSCA #H2020 #MSCA #undeclaredwork #EU4FairWork #decentwork #informaeconomy #informalsector

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Colin C. Williams @colincwilliams1.bsky.social · Sep 13

Explaining and tackling the different components of under-declared waged employment in Europe url: www.emerald.com/ijssp/articl...

Explaining and tackling the different components of under-declared waged employment in Europe

Purpose. This article evaluates the prevalence of different types of under-declared waged employment (i.e. a monthly fixed cash supplement to the official declared wage; a varying cash supplement to t...

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Colin C. Williams @colincwilliams1.bsky.social · Apr 8

The narrative that Trump's tariffs have caused a “global" tariff war is nonsense. The USA receives just 13.2% of global imports. 86.8% of global imports are received by other countries. Don't get sucked into a Trumpian over-hyping of the importance of the US in global trade. #tariffs #trump

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RICHARD FORD @richardfordshow.bsky.social · Feb 24

This seems to have gone a bit quiet lately…

#FBPE
Follow Back Pro Europe

Including Ukraine in this too, as they will surely take their seat at the table.

Keep going, the momentum is certainly building!

A peaceful united Europe with the UK and Ukraine as active participants.

Who’s with me?
✊🏼🇪🇺

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · Feb 24

A good example of fading British soft power

Universities in UK, many of which are in the grip of a financial crisis, (partly due to Brexit)“educate more national leaders than any other country in the world”according to analysis

UK institutions had educated 50 world leaders who were in post 2022