Advanced Search
MyIDEAS: Login

Informal Employment Re-loaded

Contents:

Author Info

  • Johannes P. Jütting
  • Jante Parlevliet
  • Theodora Xenogiani

Abstract

This paper provides a fresh look at informal employment, a phenomenon of renewed interest to policy makers and researchers alike. It finds that informal employment is likely to stay, is sometimes a voluntary choice, can offer better working conditions than formal employment and is very heterogeneous and diverse. Reasons for these puzzling facts and trends are discussed by focussing on incentives and constraints determining labour market outcomes. “Reloading” informal employment argues for a re-thinking of the current policy agenda and maps out important further directions for research. Cette publication porte un nouveau regard sur l'emploi informel, un phénomène qui suscite un regain d'intérêt aussi bien de la part des politiciens que des chercheurs. D’après la publication, l'emploi informel va en toute probabilité durer, qu’il est parfois un choix volontaire, qu’il peut offrir de meilleures conditions de travail que l'emploi formel, il est très hétérogène et diversifié. Les discussions autour des raisons de ces faits étonnants et des tendances sont basées à la fois sur les encouragements et sur les contraintes qui déterminent les débouchés du marché du travail. Remettre au goût du jour l'emploi informel suppose de repenser le programme politique actuel et trace de plus amples directions pour la recherche.

Download Info

If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/245657753644
Download Restriction: no

Bibliographic Info

Paper provided by OECD Publishing in its series OECD Development Centre Working Papers with number 266.

as in new window
Length:
Date of creation: Jan 2008
Date of revision:
Handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:266-en

Contact details of provider:
Postal: 2 rue Andre Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16
Phone: 33-(0)-1-45 24 82 00
Fax: 33-(0)-1-45 24 85 00
Email:
Web page: http://www.oecd.org/Dev
More information through EDIRC

Related research

Keywords: employment; social protection; informal sector; emploi; secteur informel; protection sociale;

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

References

No references listed on IDEAS
You can help add them by filling out this form.

Citations

Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
as in new window

Cited by:
  1. Ayça AKARÇAY-GÜRBÜZ & Mustafa ULUS, 2011. "Labor Force Status And Income Disparity - Evidence From Turkey," Region et Developpement, Region et Developpement, LEAD, Universite du Sud - Toulon Var, vol. 34, pages 39-56.
  2. Bargain, Olivier & Kwenda, Prudence, 2009. "The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data," IZA Discussion Papers 4286, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  3. Erik Jonasson, 2012. "Government Effectiveness and Regional Variation in Informal Employment," The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 48(4), pages 481-497, June.
  4. Bargain, Olivier & Kwenda, Prudence, 2010. "Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa," IZA Discussion Papers 4711, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  5. Slonimczyk, Fabian, 2011. "The effect of taxation on informal employment: evidence from the Russian flat tax reform," MPRA Paper 35404, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  6. Senses Dayangac, Renginar & Ozturk Goktuna, Bilge, 2011. "Informal Employment and Family Support: An Evolutionary Analysis," GIAM Working Papers 11-4, Galatasaray University Economic Research Center, revised 01 Apr 2011.
  7. Anna Ruzik & Magdalena Rokicka, 2010. "The Gender Pay Gap in Informal Employment in Poland," CASE Network Studies and Analyses 406, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
  8. Goktuna, Bilge Ozturk & Dayangac, Renginar, 2011. "Rethinking the informal labour from an evolutionary point of view," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(5), pages 609-615.
  9. Schröter, Lars, 2008. "Die Rolle des informellen Sektors in der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Argentiniens
    [The role of the informal sector in the economic development of Argentina]    ," MPRA Paper 11661, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 14 Nov 2008.
  10. Vigneswara Ilavarasan & Mark R Levy, 2010. "ICTs and Urban Microenterprises: Identifying and Maximizing Opportunities for Economic Development," Working Papers id:2819, eSocialSciences.
  11. María L. Granda & Carla Zambrano, 2012. "¿Es sostenible el Régimen Impositivo Simplificado Ecuatoriano?," IDB Publications 63338, Inter-American Development Bank.

Lists

This item is not listed on Wikipedia, on a reading list or among the top items on IDEAS.

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:devaaa:266-en

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ().

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

If references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form.

If the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form.

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.