This paper takes stock of informal employment in Russia analyzing its incidence and determinants. Using the regular … 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, relatively young …

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by … substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences. …

. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … consist in the analysis of short-term and medium-term transitions between five employment states, unemployment and inactivity …

. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … consist in the analysis of short-term and medium-term transitions between five employment states, unemployment and inactivity …

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of a lack of appropriate data. A … empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and the validity of the three schools of thought in the literature on the … are located. Our contention that informal self-employment is voluntary is confirmed by the substantial earnings premia …

. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … consist in the analysis of short-term and medium-term transitions between five employment states, unemployment and inactivity …

. When they can freely choose between a formal or informal employment relationship, i.e., the labor market is integrated …, their wellbeing can reach high levels even in the presence of informal employment. We, therefore, test whether the Ukrainian … consist in the analysis of short-term and medium-term transitions between five employment states, unemployment and inactivity …

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by … substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences …

and Russia is investigated using micro-data for 2002, 2013, and 2018. Estimated logit models indicate that, in both …, being female. We find that seniors in urban Russia are more likely to work for earnings than their counterparts in China … much stronger negative association with earnings in urban China than in urban Russia. This is consistent with the facts …

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 … employment and self-employment …