… sectors of economic activity are associated with the transition … As a result, we can say that
informality is highest among the … not relevant for a large segment of the Egyptian labor market. …

… to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective …
Does Informality Imply Segmentation in urban Labor Markets? Evidence from Sectoral Transitions …

… transition downwards into the lower tier of the informal sector. … workers in this segment not
making the transition upwards. The … Our analysis on the correlates of labour market transitions …

… Informal employment is simply a route for achieving labour flexibility, and as shown in …
Further, the analysis presented in this paper has concentrated on the urban and organised sector …

… whether informality is a last resort for the first segment of … given that labour markets in rural
areas and urban centres may … of explaining the growth of wide sectors of the population that …

… , mainly because informal job-to-job transitions seem to have … portray the informal labor
market as an inferior segment; in … , informality can represent half or more of the labor market. …

… evidence in favour of the labour market segmentation hypothesis. Finally, we also look at the
wage gaps between the two sectors over … in the mean wage gap time. The rest of the paper …

… work we examine if transitions out of informality and the benefits … Our results, however, suggest
this segmentation is less … start in the informal sector are more likely to transition into formal …

… In the informality context, this excess will not be absorbed in … It means people are working in
this sector because of … of the Iranian labor market, this paper defines formal sectors as public …

… and between sector labour market segmentation. Specifically, … sector labour market segments
and the within formal sector … of informality variable would imply zero wage gap that is no …