force participation, employment and unemployment rates, vacancy rates, the incidence of informal employment, and average … come together. Relatively high wage and employment levels go hand in hand with low levels of unemployment and informal … employment as well as with high per capita GRP. We also find that both regions-"leaders" and regions-"outsiders" tend to form …

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 …

, Fortin and Lemieux (Fipro et al., 2009). Our results confirm the heterogeneity of informal employment with specific standing … without permanent job. -- informal employment ; earnings inequality ; quantile regression ; decomposition …