of the reform on informal employment. Informality is defined using information on employment registration and self-employment …

Having unique data we investigate informal employment and "envelope payments" as additional costs of worker … employment than their non-displaced counterparts. Our main results confirm our contention that displacement entraps some of the … workers in involuntary informal employment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most part, but …

the choice between formal and informal employment and between selfemployment and wage employment. We depart from the most … coverage by social security contributions, primarily, contributions to the Pension Fund. We find that types of employment … the formal sector workers. Neither, risk preferences unambiguously determine the self-employment status. Wage and salaried …

Numerous studies of informal employment were focused on its possible impact on the income of informal workers. However … consequences of informal employment for socioeconomic position of workers and social inequality in general couldn't be reduced to … status of different categories of informal employment is investigated and compared to the formal employment, unemployment and …

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 …

The paper discusses evolution of the informal employment in the Russian labour market over the last decade. It uses all … employment and distinguish salaried informal workers and informal self-employed as two major informal groups. A simple …

mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using transition matrices and a dynamic …