IZA Discussion Papers

Revised version published as "Transitions across Labor Market States Including Formal/Informal Division in Egypt," Review of Development Economics, 2020, 23(4): 1674-1695.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8377

Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Elif Öznur Acar, Aysit Tansel

Published in: Sosyoekonomi,2016, 24(28): 147-174.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8211

Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market: Evidence from Chile

Clement Joubert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7883

Informality and Long-Run Growth

Frédéric Docquier, Tobias Müller, Joaquín Naval

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(4), 1040-1085

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7879

Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs

Carmen Pagés, Jamele Rigolini, David A. Robalino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7703

Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data

Fabian Slonimczyk, Vladimir Gimpelson

revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2015, 23(2), 299–341

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402

A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms

Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7233

Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economic Theory [Online First]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7057

Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William F. Maloney, Bob Rijkers, Mauricio Sarrias

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7035

Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Hartmut Lehmann, Alexander Muravyev

published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6935

Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector

Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Mustafa Ulus

published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6604

The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size for Self-employed Workers

Olivier Bargain, Eliane El Badaoui, Prudence Magejo, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6534

The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa

Andrew Kerr, Francis J. Teal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6442

The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka