Tag

informal_labor

4 findings

Labour & employmentGanyu Informal Casual Labor Market Structure45% of surveyed ganyu contracts are piece-rate based while 55% are time-rate. Quality monitoring is present in 74% of contracts overall (62.5% for piece-rate vs 82.8% for time-rate), with severe penalties including unpaid redo of work or loss of daily wages.Observational Study Labour & employmentDecoupling of Entry Wages from Aggregate Economic GrowthAverage nominal wages in the control group grew strictly at the rate of inflation during a period when the national economy expanded at 8% per year in real terms.Observational Study Labour & employmentInformal Per-Diem Wage Labor PreferenceJob growth following liquidity support concentrated heavily in informal jobs paying slightly below formal monthly minimum wage thresholds, characterized by significantly higher hourly pay but fewer monthly hours worked compared to formal factory positions.Observational Study Labour & employmentRule-Based Cognitive Screening in Informal MarketsAbstract logic and pattern-matching tasks successfully stratified participant cognitive capacity in low-literacy informal labor settings without reliance on formal schooling credentials.RCT