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Between Light and Shadow : Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014
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 evolution of the Russian labour market during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051444
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Remittances and Informal Work
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the Social Exclusion Survey, conducted in six transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983024
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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
Charlot, Olivier - 2013
pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and … informal activities, as well as the allocation of workers between sectors featuring different incentives to go informal. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085479
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How Different are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H. - 2012
This paper presents wage curves for formal and informal workers using a rich individual level data for Turkey over the … Turkey, less attention has focused on how this relationship differs for informal versus formal employment. This is of utmost … Household Labor Force Survey observed over 26 NUTS-2 regions, we find that real hourly wages of informal workers in Turkey are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099735
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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap : Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2012
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In particular, we test if there is evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106013
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey : Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Ceritoglu, Evren - 2015
Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian … refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014052
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Labor Mobility Across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey : Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit - 2012
theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112057
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Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Soner Baskaya, Yusuf - 2022
This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual level data from the … spatial wage curve relation holds both for formal and informal workers in Turkey for a variety of specifications. In general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083878
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec : A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard - 2011
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec's underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended by Lyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131981
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The Shadow Economy and Shadow Economy Labor Force : What Do We (Not) Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
In this paper the main focus lies on the development and the size of the shadow economy and of undeclared work (or shadow economy labor force) in OECD, developing and transition countries. Besides informal employment in the rural and non-rural sector also other measures of informal employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123597