Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?

Arbeitspapier

The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as employee be considered two different labor market states? Both the non-parametric and the parametric tests strongly reject equality between the two states, cautioning against aggregating them in a common "informality state." The parametric model indicates the source of the difference in the high dispersion of informal self-employment income and in the low duration of informal employee jobs.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16225

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Informal Labor Markets ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
• Thema: labor market frictions ; search and matching ; informality ; self-employment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Flabbi, Luca ; Tejada, Mauricio
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/278923
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ