In the past few years the informal sector in countries in transition has increasingly become the focus of research, public policy and the media. The term iquest;informal sectoriquest; has been used to describe an extremely wide spectrum of activities, which do not necessarily have much in...

We analyse informal sector employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), using panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Studies. We derive four main conclusions. First, there is significant labour market mobility in BH. Second, those in informal jobs are much more likely to suffer from...