Informal employment in emerging and transition economies

Informality and informal employment are wide-spread and growing phenomena in all regions of the world, in particular in low and middle income economies. A large part of economic activity in these countries is not registered or under-declared and many workers enter employment relationships that do no...

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Other Authors: Lehmann, Hartmut, Tatsiramos, Konstantinos, Polachek, S. W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.
Series:Research in labor economics ; v. 34.
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505 0 |a Preface / Hartmut Lehmann, Konstantinos Tatsiramos -- ch. 1. Tax evasion, minimum wage noncompliance, and informality / Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Zahra Siddique -- ch. 2. The effect of taxation on informal employment : evidence from the Russian flat tax reform / Fabián Slonimczyk -- ch. 3. Who benefits from reducing the cost of formality? : quantile regression discontinuity analysis / Tommaso Gabrieli, Antonio F. Galvao, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas -- ch. 4. Detecting wage under-reporting using a double-hurdle model / Péter Elek, János Köllo, Balázs Reizer, Péter A. Szabó -- ch. 5. Does formal work pay? : the role of labor taxation and social benefit design in the new EU member states / Johannes Koettl, Michael Weber -- ch. 6. Migration as a substitute for informal activities : evidence from Tajikistan / Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, John Landon-Lane -- ch. 7. The persistence of informality : evidence from panel data / Alpaslan Akay, Melanie Khamis -- ch. 8. Job separations and informality in the Russian labor market / Hartmut Lehmann, Tiziano Razzolini, Anzelika Zaiceva. 
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