-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …

Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform … labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered … not associated with significant employment shifts in informal enterprises, a finding that may be attributable to the fact …

on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts …, particularly among workers in informal self-employment. While the gap in employment between the treated and control districts had …