not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless …

, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment … protection legislation. They do not benefit from wage growth either, because their bargaining power is weak. Good jobs are so few …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …