TY - JOUR
T1 - Informal employment in service industries
T2 - estimations from nationally representative Labour Force Survey data of Russian Federation
AU - Karabchuk, Tatiana
AU - Zabirova, Aigul
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/9/10
Y1 - 2018/9/10
N2 - As the largest post-Soviet transition economy with substantial labour immigration and a considerable informal-sector Russia serves as an interesting case to study informal employment in the service and non-service economic sectors. The study fills the gap of the lack of empirical papers grounded on the reliable massive individual data. This article discusses almost twenty years’ dynamics of informal employment rates within the service and non-service industries based on the nationally representative Labour Force Survey primary data, collected quarterly for 2010–2015 with a sample size of about 200 thousand respondents per quarter. The unexpected finding is that the rate of informal employment is higher in non-service economic activities. Informal workers in the service sector in Russia are typically male, not very young, without tertiary education, living in urban areas. The paper also provides a comparative regression analysis on the probability of being informally employed in the service and non-service sectors.
AB - As the largest post-Soviet transition economy with substantial labour immigration and a considerable informal-sector Russia serves as an interesting case to study informal employment in the service and non-service economic sectors. The study fills the gap of the lack of empirical papers grounded on the reliable massive individual data. This article discusses almost twenty years’ dynamics of informal employment rates within the service and non-service industries based on the nationally representative Labour Force Survey primary data, collected quarterly for 2010–2015 with a sample size of about 200 thousand respondents per quarter. The unexpected finding is that the rate of informal employment is higher in non-service economic activities. Informal workers in the service sector in Russia are typically male, not very young, without tertiary education, living in urban areas. The paper also provides a comparative regression analysis on the probability of being informally employed in the service and non-service sectors.
KW - Russian labour market
KW - Service sector
KW - informal employment
KW - non-registered self-employed
KW - oral working arrangements
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U2 - 10.1080/02642069.2018.1477131
DO - 10.1080/02642069.2018.1477131
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047211483
SN - 0264-2069
VL - 38
SP - 742
EP - 771
JO - Service Industries Journal
JF - Service Industries Journal
IS - 11-12
ER -