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Report on Informal Employment in Romania
Parlevliet, Jante; Xenogiani, Theodora - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2008
Informal employment is one of the key features of the Romanian labour market and the main concerns of the Romanian government. Informal employment is not new in Romania. This study attempts to shed light on the issue of informal work in Romania.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962484
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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
Henley, Andrew; Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Carneiro, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. This paper investigates the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763755
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INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN TURKEY: AN OVERVIEW
SALEM, Mélika BEN; BENSIDOUN, Isabelle; PELEK, Selin - In: Region et Developpement 34 (2011), pp. 57-84
in keeping with the dynamic process of accession to the EU to which Turkey has been committed since the opening of … presented here de-picts a panorama of informal employment in Turkey before the implementation of these measures. It responds to … a number of lessons on how to target policies to combat informal employment in Turkey and on the people who encounter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883867
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
Nordman, Christophe J.; Nguyen, Huu Chi; Roubaud, François - 2011
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about informal sector income dynamics vis-à-vis the formal sector. Some works have been done in this field using household surveys, but they only consider some emerging Latin American countries and a few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305582
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Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries: The Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production
Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) - 2019
In this paper we explore the role of the sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) in explaining the behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment-population rates, and labour force participation rates between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005957
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Government Effectiveness and Regional Variation in Informal Employment
Jonasson, Erik - 2011
This paper analyses the role of government effectiveness in the determination of informal employment. A theoretical model is developed, in which local governance and worker skill level are assumed to influence the decision of the worker whether to seek employment in the formal or informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208558
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Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring
Elsayed, Ahmed; Wahba, Jackline - 2017
This paper examines informality during the political and economic turmoil that accompanied the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it changed by educational level right after the January Uprising of 2011. We find that over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816517
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Informal workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 countries
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286002
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Who suffers the penalty? A panel data analysis of earnings gaps in Vietnam
Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - 2013
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291419
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Competencia de la economía sumergida: ¿puestos de trabajo en peligro?
Zahir, Hadibi; Musette, Mohamed Saïb - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 1 (2018) 2
A review of the mode of regulation of the labor market regulation is expected according to the new "labor law" - in circulation for some time. The debate remains open as to the "illegalization" of informal job or the "formalization" of the informal economy. Informal employment (not affiliated...
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