employment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most part, but there seems a minority of quitting … on workers with low human capital. We also pursue the issue of informality persistence and find that informal employment …Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment …

of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … been accompanied by a decline in the female labour force participation rate, which emerged as a major puzzle. Informality … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and …

literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as … equality between the two states, cautioning against aggregating them in a common "informality state." The parametric model … indicates the source of the difference in the high dispersion of informal self-employment income and in the low duration of …

This paper investigates the causal impact of childbirth on women's likelihood of informal employment in Russia using … child. We find that childbirth significantly increases the probability of informal employment for women. The rise in … informality is concentrated in only the first year after childbirth. For first-time mothers this transition is largely involuntary …