-border trade spillover, resulting in a shift from secure forms of employment to insecure forms of self-employment, and informal … sector employment transformations. We discover that, cross border trade and financial openness have a positive association … with economic ‘informality' growth and a negative association with labor employment in the informal services industry. The …

This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both …. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries …

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 …