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. …

The main aim of this article is to point out the possible measures of how to improve the study of informal employment … are suitable for indicating the prevalence of informal employment. Firstly, we present the most popular definitions of … informal employment, secondly we show the existing research on informal employment in Poland, and thirdly we assess the …

The main goal of our article is to bridge the gap in the regional analysis of informal employment in Poland and in …

sector they locate in, their employment decisions, and whether to transition from one sector to another. In this paper, we … production, but also the level of employment, and consider how these might be affected by varying degrees of regulatory … interplay of regulation and its enforcement on the one hand, and firm decision-making about employment and output on the other …

market institutions on two sets of shadow economy indicators - shadow production and shadow employment. Comparing alternative … that the one institution that unambiguously increases shadow economy production and employment is the strictness of … employment protection legislation. Other labor market institutions - active and passive labor market policies, labor taxation …