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52 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18234
Minimum Wages and Informality
Ellora Derenoncourt, Francois Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Claire Montialoux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17916
Motherhood and Informality: Empirical Evidence from Russia
Arlan Musayir, Reza Arabsheibani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17876
Life Cycle Saving in a High-Informality Setting
Clement Joubert, Priyanka Kanth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17852
Informal Labor Exchange Teams and Participation in the Labor Market: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Christian Arciniegas, Christelle Dumas, Matthias Fahn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16895
Heterogeneous Impacts of Trade Shocks on Workers
Patrick Arni, Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt, Matthias Gubler, Philip Sauré
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16668
Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought
Barry R. Chiswick
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16519
Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children
Nick Drydakis
published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, 2023, 146,:106490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16445
Risk Attitudes and Informal Employment in Ukraine
Thomas Dohmen, Melanie Khamis, Hartmut Lehmann, Norberto Pignatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16225
Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
Luca Flabbi, Mauricio Tejada
published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 231, 111278, October
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16166
Campaign Connections
Samuel Bazzi, Claudio Labanca
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15740
Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Martin Abel, Eliana Carranza, Kimberly Geronimo, Maria Elena Ortega
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15564
Labor Informality and Market Segmentation in Senegal
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan, Emmanuel Vazquez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15401
Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation
Antonia Asenjo, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (1), 1-20.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15091
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Labor Supply Impact by Gender
Mariana Viollaz, Mauricio Salazar-Saenz, Luca Flabbi, Monserrat Bustelo, Mariano Bosch
published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2023, 14 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14839
Formalized Employee Search and Labor Demand
Lukas Hensel, Tsegay Tekleselassie, Marc J. Witte
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14692
The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana
Simone Schotte, Michael Danquah, Robert Osei, Kunal Sen
published in: Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32 (S2), ii10 - ii33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14650
Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China
Feicheng Wang, Zhe Liang, Hartmut Lehmann
thoroughly revised version appeared as 'Import Competition and the Rise of Precarious Employment. Evidence from Individual-level and Firm-level Data in China' in: Labour Economics , No. 97, December 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. 14093
Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
John T. Giles, Xin Meng, Sen Xue, Guochang Zhao
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14060
Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Costas Meghir, Gabriel Ulyssea
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13760
The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India
Swati Dhingra, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13496
Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment
Julia Schmieder
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72,102048
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13258
Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Robert Palacios, David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136
The COVID-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?
David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12487
The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jonas Jessen, Jochen Kluve
revised version published in: World Development, 2021, 138, 105256
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. 12121
What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh
Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12083
Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities: Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang
Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Haibo Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12064
Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector
Krishna B. Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Shanthi Nataraj, Yoon Y. Cho
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11783
Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil
Gabriel Ulyssea, Vladimir Ponczek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11706
The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, Renata Narita
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11390
Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11376
The Puzzles and Contradictions of the Indian Labour Market: What Will the Future of Work Look Like?
Sher Verick
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. 11039
Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis
Veronica Escudero, Jochen Kluve, Elva López Mourelo, Clemente Pignatti
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (12), 2644 - 2661
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10970
Excluded Generation: The Growing Challenges of Labor Market Insertion for Egyptian Youth
Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft
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. 10800
Eliciting Permanent and Transitory Undeclared Work from Matched Administrative and Survey Data
Peter Elek, János Köllő
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10686
War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry
Abel Brodeur, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Yanos Zylberberg
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1540-1576
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10389
The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru
Juan Gabriel Delgado Montes, Javier Corrales, Prakarsh Singh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10280
Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?
Katharina Grabrucker, Michael Grimm
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (2), 413-435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10196
Remittances and Informal Work
Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1172-1190
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. 10100
Deconstructing Informality: A Response to Vulnerability or an Optimal Choice?
Lina Song, Simon Appleton, Zhe Liang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9951
Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
Daniel Haanwinckel, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (6), 2970-3010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9723
Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees around the World
T. H. Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad, David Newhouse
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. 9592
Fear of Labor Rigidities: The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru
Pablo Lavado, Gustavo Yamada
published in: Latin American Research Review, 2023, 58 (4), 875-891.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9348
The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
Evren Ceritoglu, H. Burcu Gurcihan Yunculer, Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2017, 6:5
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9231
Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia
Niels-Hugo Blunch
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4:13
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