the choice between formal and informal employment and between selfemployment and wage employment. We depart from the most … coverage by social security contributions, primarily, contributions to the Pension Fund. We find that types of employment … the formal sector workers. Neither, risk preferences unambiguously determine the self-employment status. Wage and salaried …

Numerous studies of informal employment were focused on its possible impact on the income of informal workers. However … consequences of informal employment for socioeconomic position of workers and social inequality in general couldn't be reduced to … status of different categories of informal employment is investigated and compared to the formal employment, unemployment and …

The paper discusses evolution of the informal employment in the Russian labour market over the last decade. It uses all … employment and distinguish salaried informal workers and informal self-employed as two major informal groups. A simple …

, Fortin and Lemieux (Fipro et al., 2009). Our results confirm the heterogeneity of informal employment with specific standing … without permanent job. -- informal employment ; earnings inequality ; quantile regression ; decomposition …