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- Schement, Jorge Reina & Lievrouw, Leah (1984): A behavioural measure of information work
Information work is defined from a behavioural perspective, as the manipulation of information, when performed by workers. A set of activities characterizing information work are identified, drawing on Blooms Taxonomy as the reference source. Using this measure, the 1977 Dictionary of Occupation Titles was content analysed to identify those occupations which could be behaviourally classified as information work. 40% of all occupations were determined to be informational in work behaviour. ... Many occupations, old and new, have taken on an informational character.
RePEc:eee:telpol:v:8:y:1984:i:4:p:321-334 Save to MyIDEAS - Sefa Awaworyi Churchill & Michael Danquah (2020): Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana
We present the first study that examines the effects of ethnic diversity on informal work. Using two waves of data from the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey, we find that ethnic diversity is associated with a higher probability of engaging in informal work. Specifically, our instrumental variable estimates suggest that a unit increase in ethnic diversity is associated with up to a 26.3 percentage point increase in the probability of engaging in informal work.
RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2020-126 Save to MyIDEAS - Ivlevs, Artjoms (2016): Remittances and Informal Work
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the Social Exclusion Survey, conducted in six transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional level, high prevalence of remittances is associated with a higher likelihood of informal work among non-migrant households. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10196 Save to MyIDEAS - Enrique Alaniz & T.H. Gindling & Catherine Mata & Diego Rojas (2020): Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
We divide workers into six work statuses: formal self-employed, upper-tier informal self-employed, lower-tier informal self-employed, formal wage-employed, upper-tier informal wage-employed, and lower-tier informal wage-employed. In both Costa Rica and Nicaragua, earnings are highest for formal work, next for upper-tier informal, and last for lower-tier informal. Mobility out of lower-tier informal work is higher than out of all other work statuses.
RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2020-100 Save to MyIDEAS - Anat Bracha & Mary A. Burke (2023): Informal Work and Official Employment Statistics: What’s Missing?
Using eight consecutive waves of the Survey of Informal Work Participation (SIWP) spanning 2015 through 2022, we investigate informal “gig” work participation in the United States— broadly defined to include online and offline activities—and its implications for the measurement of employment. ... Along the intensive margin, we find evidence that a significant number of informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their informal hours. Comparing informal workers who are classified as employed by the CPS with those who are arguably misclassified as nonemployed, we find that the latter are, on average, older, less educated, and less likely to cite income as a motivation for gig work, and an elevated share are disabled. The data also indicate that certain types of income-earning activities, such as renting and selling, are less likely to be perceived as “work.” These results suggest ways to improve official surveys to better capture those employed in gig work and obtain a fuller picture of the labor market.
RePEc:fip:fedbwp:97383 Save to MyIDEAS - Artjoms Ivlevs (2016): Remittances and informal work
Design/methodology/approach - Using data from a large survey conducted in six transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the determinants of three labour market outcomes – not working, working formally and working informally – are estimated in a multinomial probit model. ... Findings - Both correlational and instrumental variable analyses suggest that that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional level, high prevalence of remittances is associated with a higher likelihood of informal work among the non-migrant households. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries. ... It advances the understanding of what drives informality in developing and transition economies.
RePEc:eme:ijmpps:v:37:y:2016:i:7:p:1172-1190 Save to MyIDEAS - Katharine G. Abraham & Susan N. Houseman (2019): Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income
Data from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking indicate that, over the course of a month, more than one-quarter of adults engage in some informal work outside of a main job. Of these, about two-thirds say that they do informal work to earn money and about one-third say that informal work is an important source of household income. Informal work plays a particularly important role in the household finances of minorities, the less educated, those experiencing financial hardship, those who work part time involuntarily, independent contractors, and the unemployed. Aggregate earnings from informal work are modest but help many households to make ends meet. Informal work cannot compensate, however, for the lack of benefits typical of part-time and contractor work.
RePEc:upj:weupjo:19-315 Save to MyIDEAS - Anat Bracha & Mary A. Burke (2016): : informal work, employment status, and labor market slack
informal? ... have the highest participation rate in informal work and the highest average hours per month. This latter finding suggests that informal work embodies labor market slack, and we offer several pieces of evidence that support the thesis that workers engage in informal work as a way to compensate for weak labor demand and may therefore drop informal work as formal labor market conditions improve. To estimate the amount of labor market slack embodied in informal work, we convert the total hours of informal work performed by those classified as employed part-time into a number of full-time job equivalents. ... At the same time, we point out that a significant share of informal work hours offer higher wages than what the same individuals earn in their formal jobs.
RePEc:fip:fedbwp:16-29 Save to MyIDEAS - David A. Hurtado & Philipp Hessel & Mauricio Avendano (2017): The hidden costs of informal work: lack of social protection and subjective well-being in Colombia
Objectives To examine the association between informal work and subjective well-being in Colombia. ... Informal work was defined as paid work without pension/unemployment contributions. Individual-level pooled Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) models were used to assess the association between informal work and life satisfaction. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) was applied to address potential selection into informal work. Results Informal work increased from 52 % in 1997 to 68 % in 2011.
RePEc:spr:ijphth:v:62:y:2017:i:2:d:10.1007_s00038-016-0864-2 Save to MyIDEAS - V. Spike Peterson & Deborah M. Figart & Tonia L. Warnecke (2013): Informal work
Topics explored include civil society, discrimination, informal work, working time, central bank policy, health, education, food security, poverty, migration, environmental activism and the financial crisis.
RePEc:elg:eechap:14323_11 Save to MyIDEAS