Using the data from a supplement to the 2009 RLMS - HSE, we aim to reveal what preferences and constraints determine the choice between formal and informal employment and between selfemployment and wage employment. We depart from the most commonly used approach that relates informality to the...

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 the monetary changes. This article presents the...

The paper discusses evolution of the informal employment in the Russian labour market over the last decade. It uses all consecutive waves of the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service in 1999-2009. Looking inside the informality and tracing its evolution...