Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment … informal employment we analyze whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal employment than their non … employment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most part, but there seems a minority of quitting …

sales returns. Enterprises that employ more than one worker, on the average, cut employment significantly during the slowest … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job … insecurity which deters the informal enterprises from increasing permanent employment and hence remains small overtime. Instead …

We analyze the joint impact of employment protection and informality on macroeconomic volatility and the propagation of …, labor regulation, and an informal sector, modeled as self-employment. The model is calibrated to the Mexican economy, in … particular to business cycle moments for employment and informality obtained from our own calculations with the ENOE survey for …

disproportionately on job separators (displaced workers and quitters) in the Russian labor market in the form of informal employment and … employment than workers who quit and whether informal employment persists. We find a strong positive link between separations and … informal employment as well as shares of undeclared wages in formal jobs. Our results also show that displacement entraps some …

on informal employment. We show, for most countries, a slump in aggregate employment, mirrored by a fall in labor … overall employment in previous recessions. Using a business cycle model with a rich labor market structure, we recover the … sector are essential to account for the employment and output loss and for the decline in the informality rate. …

disproportionately on job separators (displaced workers and quitters) in the Russian labor market in the form of informal employment and … employment than workers who quit and whether informal employment persists. We find a strong positive link between separations and … informal employment as well as shares of undeclared wages in formal jobs. Our results also show that displacement entraps some …

Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment … informal employment we analyze whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal employment than their non … employment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most part, but there seems a minority of quitting …