The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining labor market dynamics in developing
countries and offers a simple search model that informs their interpretation. It then employs …

We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution
using panel data from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. We control for time-invariant …

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs
and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks …

(ILO 2002). Informal jobs refer to work outside the regulatory framework which are not
subject to labour legislation, social protection, taxes or employment benefits. Various …

Purpose This paper, the first one to use individual-level Turkish panel data, examines the
labor market transitions in Turkey along the formal/informal employment divide. The purpose …

This study examines the worker transitions across labor market states including
formal/informal division using panel data of 2006 to 2012 from Egypt. We generate a broad …

Este artículo analiza la relación entre el índice de vulnerabilidad del empleo (IV) y la
informalidad laboral en Ecuador durante 2018, 2019 y 2021 (considerando los periodos pre …

Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing
countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various …

This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labour market for
developing countries with four heterogeneities—heterogeneity within self-employment …