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The impact of COVID-19 on urban informal workers in MaputoInformal self-employed traders in developing countries are vulnerable to shocks as they often lack access to social insurance or formal finance...
COVID-19 Informal UrbanTechnical Note
Discrete choice modelling of labour supply and informal employment using ECUAMODThis technical note presents one of the modelling approaches used in Jara and Rattenhuber (2022) to estimate formal employment elasticities, namely the estimation of a discrete choice model of labour supply with informal employment...
Labour supply Informal EmploymentWorking Paper
The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy: A stalled recoveryThis paper seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the crisis on specific groups of informal workers...
COVID-19 South Africa InformalWorking Paper
Recovery with distress: unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in BangladeshThe social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multi-dimensional...
COVID-19 Livelihoods InformalJournal Article
How mobile are workers across informal and formal jobs in India?The Indian labour market is characterized by a high level of informality, with large numbers of workers in poorly paid ‘lower-tier’ informal jobs, and somewhat better paid ‘upper-tier’ informal jobs, which do not have the same...
Formal and informal Informal FormalWorking Paper
Transitions between informal and formal jobs in India: Patterns, correlates, and consequencesThe Indian labour market is characterized by a high level of informality, with large numbers of workers in poorly paid ‘lower-tier’ informal jobs, and somewhat better paid ‘upper-tier’ informal jobs, which do not have the same...
Formal and informal Informal Formal