IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16589

Economic Sanctions and Informal Employment

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Roberto Nistico

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445

Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine

Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14650

Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China

Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang, Hartmut Lehmann

thoroughly revised version forthcoming as 'Import Competition and the Rise of Precarious Employment. Evidence from Individual-level and Firm-level Data in China' in: Labour Economics, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14601

Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits When Informality Is High

Hannah Liepmann, Clemente Pignatti

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 229, 105032.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14278

By Choice or by Force? Exploring the Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico

Robert Duval Hernández

published as 'Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1349-1362

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13986

The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality

Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan

published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65 (4), 1855-1894

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12256

Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries: The Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11272

The Economic and Social Determinants of Migrants' Well-Being during the Global Financial Crisis

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz

published as 'Migrants’ well-being during the global financial crisis: economic and social predictors' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 770-787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11256

Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market: Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?

Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2018, 46 (3), 838-857

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11245

Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring

Ahmed Elsayed, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Political Change and Informality' in: Economics of Transition, 2019, 27 (1), 31 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10966

The Impact of the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria

Ali Souag, Ragui Assaad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10139

Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry

Zhe Liang, Simon Appleton, Lina Song

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9642

Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9589

The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment: Evidence from Russia

Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9359

Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?

Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir

revised version published as 'Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty ine from Egypt: EvidencQuantile Regression on Panel Data' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58 (6), 2949-2979.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8687

Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Hartmut Lehmann

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7878

Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions

Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7844

Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia

Hartmut Lehmann, Anzelika Zaiceva

published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7149