Developing country labor practices and the working conditions that result from them are both
generally poor and increasingly drawing attention from governments, corporations, and the …

The labor market in developing countries is remarkably heterogeneous, with a small
productive formal sector characterized by high wages and attractive employment conditions …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of remittances on informal
employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and …

Employing a novel georeferenced household survey enriched with data on precipitation and
temperature, this paper examines how rainfall variability affects individual labor supply in …

This paper analyzes earnings outcomes of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. We utilize the
2009–2013 American Community Survey and a worker-matching methodology to …

The main objective of this paper is to investigate if a wage difference exists between formal
and informal sectors in the case of the Turkish labour market using a sample of …

This is the first study that uses panel data to assess the magnitude of the informal sector
wage gap in Egypt. We consider the private sector male wage earners in Egypt and examine …

Purpose This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and
tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology …

We use data from the Kazakhstan Labour Force Survey (KLFS) for the period 2006–2011 to
examine factors that determine informality amongst self-employed men and women. In …

Informality is heterogeneous, dynamic and difficult to quantify; the formal–informal gap in
earnings is one major component of it that we wish to examine. Using the 2013 Kazakhstan …