substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences. …

Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform … labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered … not associated with significant employment shifts in informal enterprises, a finding that may be attributable to the fact …

Summary .-- Introduction .-- I. Existing and new forms of informality and new atypical forms of employment in Latin …

labor informality, defined as lack of social protection related to employment, remained with few changes in the 1990s, there …

. Moreover, we find that precarious forms of employment are persistent: individuals who start their careers at the bottom of the …

-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our results suggest that employment rates among US household heads … employment-to-population ratio would have been 0.25 to 1.1 percentage points higher over the 2015-2022 period and as much as 5 … informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their …