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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico
Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023
We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455470
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Labor earnings, misallocation, and the returns to education in Mexico
Levy, Santiago; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2016
Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made … misallocate resources toward lower-productivity firms impedes Mexico from taking full advantage of its investments in the human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457935
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Who's fit for the low-carbon transition? : emerging skills and wage gaps in job and data
Saussay, Aurélien; Sato, Misato; Vona, Francesco; … - 2022
As governments worldwide increase their commitments to tackling climate change, the number of low-carbon jobs are expected to grow rapidly. Here we provide evidence on the characteristics of low-carbon jobs in the US using comprehensive online job postings data between 2010-2019. By accurately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438636
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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak
Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021
This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623701
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The impact of ICT and intangible capital accumulation on labour demand growth and functional income shares
Stehrer, Robert - 2022
This paper investigates whether the diffusion of tangible IT and CT capital and intangible capital asset types has an impact on labour demand growth and the share of labour income in total income at the industry and country level. The econometric analysis is derived from a Cobb-Douglas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274244
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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs
Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024
We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505324
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Informal employment and business cycles in emerging economies : the case of Mexico
Fernández, Andrés; Meza, Felipe - 2014
This paper documents how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated … to formal employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and … formal and informal labor markets, and the model is calibrated to Mexico. The model performs well in terms of matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286686
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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers’ incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303278
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(In)formal and (un)productive : the productivity costs of excessive informality in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Fazio, María Victoria; Levy, Santiago - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684057
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Wage incentive profiles in dual labor markets
Di Cintio, Marco; Grassi, Emanuele - 2014
This paper formalizes the use of flexible labor contracts in an efficiency wage framework and derives market dualism as an endogenous outcome. By allowing temporary contracts to be either renewed or converted into permanent contracts, new theoretical insights emerge both on the equilibrium wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251553