%0 Report
        %A Flabbi, Luca
%A Tejada, Mauricio
        %T Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16225
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16225
        %X The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as employee be considered two different labor market states? Both the non-parametric and the parametric tests strongly reject equality between the two states, cautioning against aggregating them in a common "informality state." The parametric model indicates the source of the difference in the high dispersion of informal self-employment income and in the low duration of informal employee jobs. 
        %K labor market frictions
%K search and matching
%K informality
%K self-employment