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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okr-10986-323142022-09-10T12:18:23Z Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation Kim, Yeon Soo Matytsin, Mikhail Freije, Samuel INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT WELLBEING POVERTY LABOR MARKET PENSIONS LIFE SATISFACTION LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL EQUITY 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. 2019-08-22T16:35:37Z 2019-08-22T16:35:37Z 2019-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/701161566307007499/Informal-Employment-and-Workers-Well-Being-in-the-Russian-Federation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32314 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8989 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Russian Federation |
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INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT WELLBEING POVERTY LABOR MARKET PENSIONS LIFE SATISFACTION LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL EQUITY Kim, Yeon Soo Matytsin, Mikhail Freije, Samuel Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation |
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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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Working Paper |
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Kim, Yeon Soo Matytsin, Mikhail Freije, Samuel |
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Kim, Yeon Soo Matytsin, Mikhail Freije, Samuel |
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Kim, Yeon Soo |
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation |
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation |
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation |
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation |
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Informal Employment and Worker's Well-Being in the Russian Federation |
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informal employment and worker's well-being in the russian federation |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/701161566307007499/Informal-Employment-and-Workers-Well-Being-in-the-Russian-Federation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32314 |
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