Search Results - subject_exact:"Undeclared employment"

How (not) to ask about undeclared work : estimating prevalence and patterns using a survey experimental approach

Burgstaller, Llilith; Feld, Lars P. - 2026

Reliable estimates of undeclared work in Germany are scarce, yet they matter for tax and social security policy. Using two large-scale surveys of the German general population and recipients of transfer benefits particularly, we elicit the prevalence of the supply and demand of undeclared work...

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Long-run career outcomes of multiple job holding

Muffert, Johanna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2026

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Long-run career outcomes of multiple job holding

Muffert, Johanna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2025

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Long-run career outcomes of multiple job holding

Muffert, Johanna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2025

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Long-run career outcomes of multiple job holding

Muffert, Johanna; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2025

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Research on the shadow economy and assessment of is scale : on the example of Kazakhstan

Mergenbaeva, Aziza Tojmachambetovna; Nurasheva, Kulyanda; … - 2026

The manuscript aims to assess the scale of shadow economic processes within the non-observed economy, focusing on the self-employment sector, which is insufficiently reflected in national statistics. The research methodology includes an analysis of the conceptual foundations of the shadow...

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The long shade of labor informality

Álvarez, Andrés; Becerra, Oscar; Fernández, Manuel - 2026

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Neoliberalism, informal employment and post-communist economies : a tale of a debt-seized worker

Popesko, Boris; Uddin, Shahzad; Urban, David - 2026

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Recent trends on informal employment in Georgia

Pignatti, Clemente - 2026

Drawing on data from the Georgian Labour Force Survey (2021-2022), this paper provides a detailed statistical profile of informal employment in Georgia and discusses its key drivers. Around four workers out of ten were informally employed in Georgia in 2022. The large majority (69 per cent) of...

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Tax disincentives to formal employment in Latin America

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Rivera, David - 2026

Tax-benefit systems in Latin America have expanded alongside social protection, yet persistently high informality continues to constrain fiscal capacity and redistribution. This paper examines how tax policy changes affect formal employment in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador over three periods...

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Integrating national accounting and macroeconomic approaches to estimate the underground, informal, and illegal economy in European countries

Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2025

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Assessment of Informal Employment in Georgia

2026

Labor informality is a policy concern in Georgia and other developing countries. International evidence suggests that economies associated with high informality are characterized with higher levels of inequality, lower productivity, higher levels of poverty, and lower levels of human and...

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Demand-side perspective on the informal economy : a review and research agenda

Małecka, Agnieszka; Mitręga, Maciej; Pfajfar, Gregor - 2025

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Power resources and the battle against precarious employment : trade union activities within a tripartite initiative tackling undeclared work in Sweden

Håkansta, Carin; Albin, Maria; Kreshpaj, Bertina; … - 2024

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Formal labor market dynamics and development

Brockmeyer, Anne; Gerard, François; Ulyssea, Gabriel; … - 2026

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Formal labor market dynamics and development

Brockmeyer, Anne; Gerard, François; Ulyssea, Gabriel; … - 2026

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Fostering decent jobs, formalising informal employment and spurring job mobility in MENA countries

Adair, Philippe; AlAzzawi, Shireen; Hlásny, Vladimír - 2024

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Gendered labor market responses to increased import competition

Alewell, Leoni; Heckl, Pia - 2025

Over the last decades, globalization has led to more integrated markets which fostered the transformation of economies around the world. How do domestic labor markets react to increased competition from abroad? This Policy Brief examines the effect of an import shock on the Mexican labor market...

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Foggy social structures : irregular migration, European labour markets and the welfare state

2025 - First edition.

INTRODUCTION 1 Irregular migration as a structural phenomenon PART I IRREGULAR MIGRATION AND EASTERN ENLARGEMENT 2 From irregular migrants to fellow Europeans: Changes in Romanian migratory flows 3 Illegality in everyday life: Polish workers in Dutch agriculture 4 The informal economy of paid...

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Economic sanctions and informal employment

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2024

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Economic sanctions and informal employment

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

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Economic sanctions and informal employment

Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Ali; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023

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Informal employment, the tertiary sector, and the Gross Domestic Product : a structural equations model for the Mexican economy

Robles Ortiz, David; Ambriz Torres, Raymundo Alexei - 2024

In Mexico, approximately 55% of the working population is employed informally, contributing 24.4% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2022. This study analyzed the impact of wages, taxes, government spending, and unemployment on the informal economy of Mexico from 1980 to 2022, as well as its...

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Social distance and informal employment reporting

Dell' Anno, Roberto; Puca, Marcello - 2025

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Access for domestic workers to labour and social protection : the case of Kosovo

Haxhikadrija, Amir; Mustafa, Artan - 2024

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Handbook on regularisation policies : practices, debates and outcomes

2025

This Handbook demonstrates that migrant regularisation is not an exceptional measure but a core policy tool of migration governance. It examines policy designs, actors, and implementation challenges, highlighting impacts on labour markets, rights and social cohesion. Drawing on evidence from...

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Minimum wages and informality

Derenoncourt, Ellora; Gerard, François; Lagos, Lorenzo; … - 2025

How do minimum wages affect informality? We study the near-doubling of the real minimum wage from 2000 to 2009 in Brazil, where 46% of the workforce is informal. Using labor force surveys covering the informal sector, we show the minimum wage exhibits near full passthrough to informal employees...

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Access for domestic workers to labour and social protection : the case of Serbia

Pejin Stokić, Ljiljana - 2024

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Labour migration and development in Azerbaijan, 1998-2022

Ismayilov, Vilayat; Aslanzade, Ilham; Guliyev, Ramil; … - 2024

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Sort arbejde i Danmark 2021 : omfang, karakteristika og tabt skatteprovenu

Ebbesen Skov, Af Peer; Raagaard, Frederik Blæhr - 2025

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Workers in informal employment organising and acting collectively : the role of trade unions

Xhafa, Edlira; Serrano, Melisa R. - 2024

The expansion of informal employment has been associated with increased exploitation and decent work deficits, leading to widespread poverty and growing inequalities. In response, a variety of forms of collective representation and action by and with informal workers have emerged demanding...

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Challenging the formality bias : the organization of informal work, working relations, and collective agency in Kenya and Tanzania

Riisgaard, Lone; Torm, Nina; Kinyondo, Godbertha; … - 2024

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Tax evasion, education and shadow economy

Ciucci, Salvatore - 2024

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Informal work and how to measure it : a formal consensus at the 100th International Conference of Labour Statisticians

Belchamber, Grant; Schetagne, Sylvain - 2024

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Structural transformation and the platform economy in the labour market : the case of drivers and delivery workers in Brazil

Roubaud, François; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Neto, … - 2024

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Extreme lockdowns and the gendered informalization of employment : evidence from the Philippines

Ramos, Vincent Jerald - 2024

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Informality and wealth distribution: a heterogeneous agent model

Gil, Hamilton Galindo; Ledesma, Alan; Yepez, Luis; … - 2024

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Tackling the shadow economy in Azerbaijan : are there any results?

Bagirzadeh, Elshan; Niftiyev, Ibrahim - 2026

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Breaking the Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low-Paying Work

2024

This report adds two perspectives on informality. First, it disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to...

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Shadow economy in Kyrgyzstan : analyses and tackling policies

Tilekeyev, Kanat - 2026

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New technologies, e-government and informality

Chacaltana, Juan; Bárcia de Mattos, Fernanda; García … - 2024

This working paper studies the complex relationship between technology adoption and informality, leveraging recent cross-country data to analyse the effects of mobile phone subscriptions, internet access, automation and e-government on informal employment, vulnerable employment, and the...

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The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina : new estimates using changes in the schedule of transfers

González Rozada, Martín; Ruffo, Hernán - 2026

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Partial legalization and parallel markets : the effect of lawful crossing on unlawful crossing at the US Southwest border

Clemens, Michael A. - 2024

Legal and illegal markets often coexist. In theory, marginal legalization can either substitute for the remaining parallel market, or complement it via scale effects. I study migrants crossing without prior authorization at the US southwest border, where large-scale unlawful crossing coexists...

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16. Understanding job insecurity in formal and informal work

Shoss, Mindy; Saxena, Mahima - 2026

Job insecurity is core to key work-related outcomes including well-being and performance. Working from the premise that job insecurity should be understood within the context in which it occurs, we make a case for differentially approaching research on insecurity in formal and informal work...

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Non-EU nationals in irregular employment in Ireland

Stapleton, Amy; Cunniffe, Emily; Quinn, Emma - 2024

Irregular employment, broadly understood as employment that is insufficiently covered by formal arrangements either in law or in practice, presents problems for the State in terms of tax revenue and regulation, whether it is undertaken by Irish, EU or non-EU nationals. For non-EU nationals,...

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Moonlighting and organizational performance in the Nigerian banking sector

Oladimeji, Moruff Sanjo; Ayo-Balogun, Atinuke Oluwatoyin; … - 2023

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The entrepreneurial cognitive adjustment mechanism : transitional entrepreneurship as a solution to mitigate illegal migration

Arteaga-Fonseca, Jorge; Zhang, Yi Elaine; Bylund, Per L. - 2023

Purpose - In this paper, the authors suggest that Central Americans can use entrepreneurship to solve economic uncertainty in their home country and that entrepreneurship can contribute to reducing the number of undocumented migrants to the USA. Design/methodology/approach - The authors first...

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Social Protection and Labor Market Policies for the Informally Employed

Castellanos, Luis Eduardo; Franco Restrepo, Camila; … - 2024

This paper provides conceptual definitions and distinctions between formalization, worker protection and productivity enhancement, and examines the impact of social protection and labor market policies in achieving these inter-related yet distinct policy goals. Focusing on empirical evidence...

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The gendered relationship between temporary, informal employment and wages : evidence from the Turkish labor market

Duman, Anil - 2023

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Informal Employment in Malaysia

Abdur Rahman, Amanina; Cheng, Natalie Fang Ling; … - 2024

This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally employed workers. Using a working definition of informal employment based on coverage by a...

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Climbing the (in)formality job ladder: determinants and dynamics of labour informality in Peru

Opazo Valenzuela, Tomás - 2024

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"Stay at home (if you can)" : informal employment and COVID-19 in Mexico

Chapa Cantú, Joana Cecilia; Saldaña Villanueva, … - 2023

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Revisiting the undeclared service economy as a dual labour market : lessons from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey

Williams, Colin C.; Kayaoglu, Aysegul - 2023

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Heterogeneous effect of out-migration on informal employment in rural Nepal

Katwal, Saurav; Uematsu, Hiroki; Niraula, Baburam - 2024

This research examines the heterogeneous impact of out-migration on the informal employment within the framework of rural transformation in Nepal. Employing a multinomial Probit model with instrumental variables, we analyze the influence of household-level migration on the informal employment...

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Optimal redistribution with a shadow economy

Doligalski, Paweł; Rojas, Luis E. - 2023

We extend the theory of optimal redistributive taxation to economies with an informal sector. In particular, in our model, workers can supply labor simultaneously to the formal and the informal sectors, which we call moonlighting. The optimal tax formula contains two novel terms capturing...

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Optimal redistribution with a shadow economy

Doligalski, Paweł; Rojas, Luis E. - 2016

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Effect of informal employment on overeducation in developing countries with a focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Mosengo, Cédrick Kalemasi; Zamo Akono, Christian Marie - 2024

The aim of this study is to assess the effect of informal employment on the occurrence of overeducation in developing countries, focusing on the specific case of the DRC. Using employment data, we determine the incidence of overeducation and we isolate the role of informal employment as a...

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