1.
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 27 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and World Bank
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6,303
2.
Economic Aspects of Bitcoin and Other Decentralized Public-Ledger Currency Platforms
University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 685
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 14 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 17 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Market Platform Dynamics
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4,507
3.
The Online Platform Economy in 2018: Drivers, Workers, Sellers, and Lessors
JPMorgan Chase Institute, 2018
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 23 Oct 2018
Accepted Paper Series
JP Morgan Chase & Co. - JP Morgan Chase Institute, The Vanguard Group, Inc. and JP Morgan Chase & Co.
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1,829
4.
The Online Platform Economy: Has Growth Peaked?
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 17 Feb 2017
Working Paper Series
JP Morgan Chase & Co. - JP Morgan Chase Institute and The Vanguard Group, Inc.
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1,773
5.
Job and Wage Losses in Informal Sector due to the COVID-19 Lockdown Measures in India
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 27 Aug 2020
Working Paper Series
International Labour Organization (ILO) and Madras School of Economics
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1,456
6.
Understanding informality
CAMA Working Paper No. 76/2021
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 04 Sep 2021
Working Paper Series
Bogazici University, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
There are 3 versions of this paper
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1,405
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1
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1,405
7.
Efeitos do desemprego, do Auxílio Emergencial e do Programa Emergencial de Preservação do Emprego e da Renda (MP 936) sobre a renda, a pobreza e a desigualdade durante e depois da pandemia (Effects of Unemployment, Basic Emergency Income and the Emergency Employment and Income Preservation Program (MP 936) on Income, Poverty and Inequality during and after the Pandemic in Brazil)
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 24 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Rio de Janeiro State University and Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP)
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1,264
8.
Blood Money: Selling Plasma to Avoid High-Interest Loans
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 11 Oct 2021
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2024
Working Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis and University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance
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1,236
9.
Understanding Informality
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 01 Sep 2021
Working Paper Series
Bogazici University, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank
There are 3 versions of this paper
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1,405
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1
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943
10.
Designing Against Discrimination in Online Markets
32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1183 (2017)
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 12 Dec 2017
Last Revised: 10 Jul 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University and Microsoft ResearchCornell University
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939
11.
How Do Peer Awards Motivate Creative Content? Experimental Evidence from Reddit
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 17 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 04 Jan 2021
Working Paper Series
Boston University - Questrom School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Operations and Information Management, University of Miami Herbert Business School and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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902
12.
On the Impact of the 2023 Sudanese War on Africa and Beyond
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 21 Jun 2023
Working Paper Series
GIGA - Hamburg, Institute of African Affairs
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861
13.
Wage Discrimination in India's Formal and Informal Labour Markets
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 16 Jun 2016
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
IIT Jammu and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee - Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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788
14.
Wage Differences by Caste and Religion in India
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 18 Sep 2016
Working Paper Series
Independent
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766
15.
One-Way Ticket to Rwanda? Boris Johnson's Cruel Refugee Tactic Meets Kagame's Shady Immigration Handling
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 27 May 2022
Working Paper Series
GIGA - Hamburg, Institute of African Affairs
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731
16.
Regulating the Human Supply Chain
Iowa Law Review, Vol. 102, 2017, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2914424
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 09 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
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662
17.
How Large Is the Size of Nigeria’s Informal Economy? A Mimic Approach
International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2020
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 24 Oct 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja. and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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650
18.
Evaluating Competing Theories of Street Entrepreneurship: Some Lessons from a Study of Street Vendors in Bangalore, India
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2012, pp. 391-409.
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 21 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sheffield - School of Management and Indian Institute of Science
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649
19.
The Impact of Digital Technology on Work
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 08 Apr 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - University Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development (TIDES)
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648
20.
Challenges and Opportunities of India's Manufacturing Sector
OECD Working Paper , No. 1183, 2015
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 21 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO), Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
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619
21.
Un piso de protección social para preservar la vida: informalidad, pobreza y vulnerabilidad en tiempos de COVID-19 (A Social Protection Floor to Preserve Life: Informality, Poverty and Vulnerability in Times of COVID-19)
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 02 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
National University of Colombia and National University of Colombia - Department of Economics
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587
22.
Payments Under the Table: Employer-Employee Collusion in Brazil
Number of pages: 102
Posted: 15 Nov 2022
Last Revised: 06 Nov 2024
Working Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, College of Letters & Science, Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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564
23.
Blessing or Burden? The Impact of Refugees on Businesses and the Informal Economy
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 16 Jun 2018
Last Revised: 25 Mar 2021
Working Paper Series
Bentley University, Bahcesehir University and University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
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520
24.
Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Columbia University and Cornell University, Department of Economics, Students
There are 2 versions of this paper
Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
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493
Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16117
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 14 May 2021
Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
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3
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493
25.
On the Socio-Economic Impact of Pandemics in Africa - Lessons Learned from COVID-19, Trypanosomiasis, HIV, Yellow Fever and Cholera
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 05 May 2021
Last Revised: 07 Jul 2021
Working Paper Series
GIGA - Hamburg, Institute of African Affairs
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491
26.
Machine Ethics and African Identities: Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence in Africa
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 14 Sep 2022
Working Paper Series
GIGA - Hamburg, Institute of African Affairs
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490
27.
The Labour Market Impact of Covid-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14692
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 07 Sep 2021
Last Revised: 19 May 2022
Working Paper Series
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), United Nations - United Nations University (UNU), University of Ghana - Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and The University of Manchester
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463
28.
Informal Sector Entrepreneurship
OECD Policy Briefing, Paris, 2014
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 14 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Sheffield - School of Management
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453
29.
Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10139
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 22 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham - School of Economics and Nottingham University Business School
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450
30.
Política social contemporánea. Un paradigma en crisis (Contemporary Social Policy. A Paradigm in Crisis)
Number of pages: 162
Posted: 02 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
National University of Colombia
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429
31.
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 30 Apr 2018
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Working Paper Series
Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil - Central Bank of Brazil, Seoul National University - College of Business Administration and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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411
32.
The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9348
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 12 Oct 2015
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
Government of the Republic of Turkey - Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Government of the Republic of Turkey - Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Government of the Republic of Turkey - Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and TED University
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406
33.
Competition in the Black Market: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gangs in Chicago
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 05 May 2021
Working Paper Series
Brown University - Department of Economics and Department of Economics, Boston University
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394
34.
Measuring the ‘Gig’ Economy: Challenges and Options
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust and Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
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390
35.
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration to Colombia: Reconciling Conflicting Results
Lebow, Jeremy. "The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia: reconciling conflicting results" IZA Journal of Development and Migration, vol.13, no.1, 2022, pp.-. https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2022-0005
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 08 Nov 2021
Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
World Bank Group - Poverty and Equity Global Practice
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390
36.
The Ethics of Tax Evasion: Summaries of 21 Studies
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 13 Apr 2022
Working Paper Series
Fayetteville State University - Department of Accounting
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385
37.
Quantifying Informal Farm Employment From Migration Waves
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 28 Sep 2022
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2025
Working Paper Series
University of Innsbruck, Bocconi University and University of Leicester - School of Business
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368
38.
Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13258
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 19 May 2020
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
World Bank and World Bank
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367
39.
Emerging Digital Labor: Literature Review and Research Design
JÓZSEF PAP & CSABA MAKÓ (2020), Emerging Digital Labor: Literature Review
and Research Design, TÉR – GAZDASÁG – EMBER, Vol 8(3), 20, 9-25
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Széchenyi University and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Institute of Sociology
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364
40.
Dependent Self-Employment: Trends, Challenges and Policy Responses in the EU
ILO Employment Working Paper no. 228, International Labour Office, Geneva
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 09 Dec 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Sheffield - School of Management and International Labour Organization (ILO) - Policy Integration Department
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361
41.
Narratives of Daily Wage Workers Across Mazdoor Mandis (Labor Markets) of India During a Pandemic : Observations from an Ethnographic Survey in Cities of Lucknow and Pune
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 28 Mar 2021
Working Paper Series
O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), ICRIER, entre for New Economics Studies (CNES), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University and O.P. Jindal Global University
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357
42.
Informal Employment in Developed and Developing Economies: Perspectives and Policy Responses
International Labour Review, Vol. 152, No. 3–4, pp. 355-380 (2013)
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 22 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sheffield - School of Management and International Labour Organization (ILO)
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347
43.
The Online Platform Economy Through the Pandemic
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 04 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
The Vanguard Group, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Institute
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347
44.
Labour Market Segmentation in the Indian Economy: An Investigation
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 06 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 15 Mar 2016
Working Paper Series
IIT Jammu and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee - Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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333
45.
Formal Effects of Informal Labor: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 15 Nov 2022
Last Revised: 08 Apr 2025
Working Paper Series
MIT
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328
46.
Tackling Undeclared Work in the Collaborative Economy and Bogus Self-Employment
Number of pages: 111
Posted: 30 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Sheffield - School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Independent
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311
47.
Employment Protection Legislation and Informality: Theory and Evidence from India
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 16 Sep 2022
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2024
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
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310
48.
Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 18 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 08 Dec 2021
Working Paper Series
Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil - Central Bank of Brazil, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance, Seoul National University - College of Business Administration and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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309
49.
The Covid-19 Conundrum in the Developing World: Protecting Lives or Protecting Jobs?
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13136
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 13 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
World Bank
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299
50.
Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8851
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 21 Feb 2015
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Working Paper Series
Copenhagen Business School and University of Hohenheim - Institute of Household and Consumer Economics
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296
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