This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

occupations- part-time work, self-employment, and labour informality-needed for family-work balance. Furthermore, countries with …

Despite rapid economic growth in recent decades, informality remains a persistent phenomenon in the labour markets of … many low- and middle-income countries. A key issue in this regard concerns the extent to which informality itself is a … heterogeneity in the transition patterns observed for workers in upper-tier versus lower-tier informality. Given the limited …

services. Using firm census data from 2014 for Ghana, we measure the rates of informality along extensive (unregistered firms … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality …

This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social …, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality …

informality-and workers' transitions to decent work using multinomial logistic regressions and recent Labour Market Panel Surveys …

-exogenous changes in industry-level real exchange rates to explore the likelihood of informality across employers exposed to varying …