Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation
This paper finds that informal workers are more likely to have inferior work conditions, but do not necessarily report worse subjective well-being. Starting with lower wages, but also with less regularity of hours and paid vacation, informal worker...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/701161566307007499/Informal-Employment-and-Workers-Well-Being-in-the-Russian-Federation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32314 |
| Summary: | This paper finds that informal workers
are more likely to have inferior work conditions, but do not
necessarily report worse subjective well-being. Starting
with lower wages, but also with less regularity of hours and
paid vacation, informal workers have higher incidence of
envelope payments than formal workers but not of hazardous
or unstable jobs. After controlling for work conditions,
informal workers do not have statistically significantly
lower job satisfaction and under no specification are
informal workers more likely to self-assess worse health
than formal workers. Finally, there is some association
between informal employment and household poverty and life
satisfaction, but it is not robust to changes in econometric
specification or sample composition. The authors conclude
that the evidence indicates that informal employment in the
Russian Federation is mostly a problem of labor productivity
and the design of the social protection system, but
worsening wages and some association between informality and
household poverty indicate that informality may also be a
social equity problem. |
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