Over the last two decades the Egyptian labor market has undergone major changes that the social claims of the January 2011 revolution brought to light. Among them, lack of job security and associated weak social protection have been particularly criticized. Therefore the aim of this article is...

Analyzes the main reasons of informal employment at SMEs and looks for decisions to stimulate formal employment in the CIS countries.

The paper uses panel data for up to ten Latin America countries for the period 1990-2000 to analyse whether informal employment functions as a cyclic buffer for formal employment as well as whether women's employment functions as a cyclic buffer for men's employment. The paper also evaluates...

Analyses the results of a survey on informal employment that was carried out in November 2006 in the Harare suburb of Glen View.

Based on the 2004 Labour Force Survey. Presents data on employment, unemployment and the extent of informality and examines different dimensions of decent work and job quality, such as working hours, incomes and occupational health and safety risks. The paper concludes by extracting the main...

This paper shows empirical tests for the determinants of informal economy separately in terms of (i) income generation in the informal economy in proportion to the GDP and (ii) the proportion of employment in the informal economy to the total non-agricultural employment. Drawing on previous...

Examines trends in non-regular employment and related issues in the Republic of Korea. Argues that the labour market is further segmented by different types of non-regular employment and such segmentation is demonstrated in job quality gaps.