A guide to multisector labor market models

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Entry Regulation and the Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries (2013, unknown): “A related view is the segmented labor market perspective, in which the informal sector is seen as “the free entry sector of last resort” catering to individuals who would prefer paid employment but are unable to find formal wage jobs (Fields 2004).”
Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort (2012, unknown): “of the informal labor market in developing economies, the one stressed by Fields (2005)”
Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work (2013, unknown): “More recently, an integrated approach has developed, combining elements of all three of these other approaches (Bacchetta et al., 2009; Chen, 2007; Fields, 2005).”
Labor Market Regulations: What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries? (2014, unknown): “As Fields (2005) explains, there are variations of this model, with different assumptions about wages and unemployment in the two sectors.”
Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan (2016, unknown): “The emergent finding has been that there is what Fields (1990, 2005) terms an exclusion-driven “lower tier” and exit-driven “upper tier” of informal sector entrepreneurship and enterprise.”