focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable … employment - possibly due to a decline in reservation wages. Accordingly, wages decline, hours of work increase, and job search …

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

Informal employment is ubiquitous in developing countries, but few studies have estimated workers' switching costs … between informal and formal employment. This paper builds on the empirical literature grounded in discrete choice models to … employment are significantly lower than the costs of entry in formal employment. Simulations of labor-market adjustments caused …

This paper evaluates the effects of a fall in payroll taxes on employment and wages in the presence of high labor … formality. The model suggests that the reform would increase total employment by between 0.3 to 0.5 percent and formal … employment by between 3.4 to 3.7 percent over the pre-reform scenario. In addition, formal wage rates would increase by 4 …