Trade sanctions and informal employment

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi and Roberto Nisticò ()

No wp-2023-19, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper examines how trade sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unexpected and unprecedented trade sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. We use a difference-in-differences approach and compare the probability of working in the informal sector before and after 2012 for individuals employed in industries with pre-existing different levels of exposure to international trade.

Keywords: International trade; Informal work; Labour market; Sanctions; Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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