This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … social security registration criterion is found to be a better measure of informality in the Turkish labor market given its …

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 …-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different …

, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and … distinct labor market states and identifying the effects of certain individual and job characteristics on variant mobility … market states of formal-salaried, informal-salaried, formal self-employed, informal self-employed, unemployed and inactive …

representations are not compatible with each other. We develop a search-theoretic model of contractual dualism in the labor market … where the inability to commit to contracts in the informal sector leads to employer market power in equilibrium, while an … enforced minimum wage in the formal sector provides employers with a commitment technology but which reduces their market power …

results show most informal firms won't formalize unless forced to do so, suggesting formality offers little private benefit to …