Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region … is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment … employment and self-employment …

Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is … informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …