Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is … measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after … informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the …

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by … substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences. …

. 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 …

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. …

We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job … contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment … vulnerable groups, so the growth of casual employment is particularly concerning. There are indications that running small …

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 …

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are … from non-professional own account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income levels, non …

in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it changed by educational level right after … the January Uprising of 2011. We find that over time and particularly after the revolution, informal employment has …

. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …