causal impact of poor health on labour force participation, hours worked and wages. There appears to be a significant … the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area … positive association between local area-level radiation dosage and health perception based on self-reported poor health status …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

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 …

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 …

This paper takes stock of informal employment in Russia analysing its incidence and determinants. Using the regular … measures of informal employment and demonstrates that the incidence varies widely across the different definitions. We also … show that the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures: workers who are males …

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 …

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region … is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In … employment and self-employment. …