Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China's industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …

, China and South Africa, towards labour shortage and generally rising labour real incomes. In the acuteness of their rural …, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China ? a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment …

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …

This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …

We analyse potential dynamic benefits for a firm from having the option of adopting informal status. Informality may be … parameter values, suggesting a potential dynamic case for government support of informal firms. Informality may alternatively … profitability is disappointing, it can switch to informality. However, this result obtains for a range of parameter values so narrow …