This paper investigates the role of consumer credit growth and expansion of consumer financial services on the reduction of informal employment in a developing country. I argue that financial services growth should lead to a decline in the share of informal employment given that consumers whose...

After the 2001 crisis, Argentinaonce the poster-child for pro-market structural-adjustment policieshad to define a new strategy in order to manage the societal demands that had led to the fall of the previous administration. The demand by the majority of the population for employment recovery...

Das Beschäftigungsproblem betrifft neben 200 Millionen Arbeitslosen auch über 900 Millionen prekär Beschäftigte oder Working Poor. Um zur Lösung dieser Probleme beizutragen, müssen die Geber klare Zielsetzungen verfolgen und versuchen möglichen Zielkonflikten zu begegnen. Entscheidungen...

This paper evaluates the worker-level effects of a historically large and permanent increase in the minimum wage in Lithuania. Our identification strategy leverages variation in workers’ exposure to the new minimum wage, and exploits the fact that there has been no increase in the minimum...

Labour informality is one of the most serious challenges facing a developing economy like India with large-scale poverty and large decent work deficits. This study inspected possible heterogeneity within informal employment among the non-cultivator workers in India. Multinomial Logit was applied...

This paper evaluates critically the neo-liberal perspective which contends that informal employment results from high taxes, public sector corruption and too much state interference in the free market and that the consequent remedy is to reduce taxes, public sector corruption and the regulatory...

This paper evaluates critically the argument of neo-liberals that informal employment is a result of high taxes, public sector corruption and too much state interference in the free market and that the consequent solution is to reduce taxes, public sector corruption and the regulatory burden via...

Using eight consecutive waves of the Survey of Informal Work Participation (SIWP) spanning 2015 through 2022, we investigate informal "gig" work participation in the United States-broadly defined to include online and offline activities-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our...