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 …

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. In … employment and self-employment. …

clear-cut result of our analysis is the strong positive effect of new private firms on net employment growth, a finding … established for other transition economies as well. At the same time, we do not find differences in the employment growth of state … employment growth and of size and job reallocation. Finally, we establish that strong foreign trade links force firms to shed …

This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in … initial differences in industrial composition across prefectural cities and then link it with the employment status of … shocks in developing countries, i.e. employment adjustment along the formal-informal dimension. …

. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … consist in the analysis of short-term and medium-term transitions between five employment states, unemployment and inactivity …

analyze whether workers with a higher willingness to take risks are more likely to select into informal employment contracts …. The data permit us to distinguish between five employment states: formal and informal self-employment, formal salaried … employment, voluntary informal salaried employment, and involuntary informal salaried employment. The empirical evidence reveals …

examine employment dynamics during various periods, including significant shocks like the 2008 global recession, the local … characteristics influences employment structure dynamics. Turkey's labor market is highly dynamic, with job reallocation rates ranging …