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

Informal employment is ubiquitous in developing countries, but few studies have estimated workers'switching costs … between informal and formal employment. This paper builds on the empirical literature grounded in discrete choice models to … employment are significantly lower than the costs of entry in formal employment. Simulations of labor-market adjustments caused …

employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in lower-income countries. Household enterprises tend to operate with limited …

, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in … manufacturing. Second, the unorganized sector is stubbornly persistent -- it accounted for 81 percent of manufacturing employment in … states show limited change in unorganized sector employment shares. Fourth, the degree to which localized unorganized …

between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric … specification or sample composition. The authors conclude that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the Russian …

This paper examines the dynamics and characteristics of high-growth firms in Tunisia. Further knowledge about the … analysis suggests that between 1999 and 2015, about 9 to 10.5 percent of the firms in Tunisia achieved high-growth status per …

improving employment outcomes over the medium to long term. A potential time lag between entrepreneurial intentions and actions … is sometimes presented as a reason why employment impacts are rarely observed. Based on a randomized control trial among … university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after …

difference between the value of exports to Tunisia reported by partner countries and the value of imports reported at Tunisian …

economies have a quasi-fiscal deficit below 3 percent of gross domestic product (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar, and the West …

This paper uses Synthetic Control Methodology to estimate the output loss in Tunisia as a result of the "Arab Spring … Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model of Tunisia's economic growth. Moreover, this paper finds that investment was the main channel …