informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …

. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …

focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable … employment - possibly due to a decline in reservation wages. Accordingly, wages decline, hours of work increase, and job search …

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are … from non-professional own account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income levels, non …

of the reform on informal employment. Informality is defined using information on employment registration and self-employment …-in-difference ; transition ; Russia …