ABSTRACT This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated cross-section data from the Household Survey on Employment for the period from 1997 to 2013, and a difference-in-difference methodology, we estimate whether the Action Plan has reduced the probability that workers are employed informally in enterprises of more than 5 workers – the type of enterprise that is most likely to be directly affected by the Action Plan. Our results show that the Action Plan has in fact contributed to reducing employment informality in such enterprises, but with heterogeneous effects. More precisely, it reduced informality for employees of establishments of 10 workers or more but had no significant effects on informality for those working in enterprises of 5 to 9 workers. Furthermore, when we restrict our estimates to new entrants only, we do not find statistically significant effects.

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促进就业和打击失业的行动计划对阿尔及利亚就业非正式性的影响

摘要本文研究了阿尔及利亚政府于2008年通过的劳动力市场中介计划“促进就业和打击失业行动计划”是否减少了阿尔及利亚的就业非正式性。使用1997年至2013年期间的家庭就业调查的重复横截面数据和差异方法，我们估计该行动计划是否降低了工人在5个以上企业中被非正式雇用的可能性工人–最有可能直接受到《行动计划》影响的企业类型。我们的结果表明，《行动计划》实际上有助于减少此类企业的就业非正式性，但产生了多种影响。更确切地说，它减少了10名或10名以上工人的企业的雇员的非正式工作，但对在5至9名工人的企业中工作的雇员的非正式工作没有重大影响。此外，当我们仅将估计值限制在新进入者时，我们没有发现统计学上显着的影响。