Port workers in Colombia : reinstatement as formal workers / Daniel Hawkins -- Retail and hospitality workers in South Africa : organized by trade union of formal workers to demand equal pay and benefits / Sahra Ryklief -- Haitian migrant workers in Dominican Republic : organized by trade union...

This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions in explaining developments of shadow economies in European countries. We use several alternative measures of the shadow sector, and we examine effects of labor institutions on shadow sector in two specific regions: new and old European...

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

Japanese and Korean labor markets and social protections in a comparative perspective -- The politics of labor market reform in hard times : a theoretical framework -- The institutional origins of labor markets and social protections in Japan and Korea -- Japan : liberalization for outsiders,...