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 …

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 …

, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of …In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they move … evidence of labor hoarding. There were significant cross-country variations in the determinants of employment during the reform …

, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of …In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they move … evidence of labor hoarding. There were significant cross-country variations in the determinants of employment during the reform …

In this paper we document and analyze gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria … excess job reallocation rate is positively correlated with the net employment growth rate at the sector and regional level …