informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …-72, including women. In addition, minimum wage hikes are associated with an increase in informal employment. …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and …Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and … unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to …

official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our …

Labor market conditions deteriorated substantially in the1990s during Russia's transition from plan to market … concern about ability to find employment in case of a lay-off. Our descriptive analysis focuses on workers who perceived their …