Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is … measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after … informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the …

mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using transition matrices and a dynamic …

informal employment for Russia could hardly be regarded as methodologically robust. …According to the existing literature, informality rates for Russia vary in a wide range from slightly more than 5 to … paper investigates the degree of congruence between several alternative definitions of the informal employment in the …

between informal employment and household poverty and life satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric … specification or sample composition. The authors conclude that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the Russian …