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

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

successfully compete for formal jobs. Specifically, we calculate the returns to education on formal employment for a discriminated …

employment losses and gains during the peak COVID-19 years compared with pre-pandemic levels. As part of its work on the impact … of the pandemic on informal workers, the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network … separate analysis of South African data on employment losses and gains during COVID-19 (see Rogan and Skinner 2022). This paper …

-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 …

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. …