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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?.
Harati, Rawaa - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013
This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640971
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Earnings gaps, Segmentation and Competitiveness in the Ghanaian Labour Market
Nimoh, Nana C.; Ali, Abdilahi; Syme, Tony - 2020
gaps in the country, and (2) whether informal sector employment is due to labour market segmentation (i.e. last resort) or …, there is both segmentation and competitiveness within the informal labour market. Our results highlight the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174173
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Launov, Andrey; Günther, Isabel - 2006
informal sector being competitive to the formal sector and part of the informal sector being the result of market segmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296002
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - 2006
with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296549
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Launov, Andrey; Günther, Isabel - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006
informal sector being competitive to the formal sector and part of the informal sector being the result of market segmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082698
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Bayerische … - 2006
with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226045
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2007
market segmentation. To test this hypothesis, we formulate an econometric model which allows for a heterogeneous informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765437
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Migration and Subjective Poverty in sending countries: An analysis of the Egyptian case
Kahn, Yehudith; Dumas, Audrey; Eshet, Yovav; Billfeld, Nir - In: Migration Letters 11 (2014) 3, pp. 353-367
a simultaneous bivariate ordered probit model, we found that poorer individuals in Egypt tend to migrate more than … others. Migration was found to be a significant determinant of current poverty in Egypt. Finally, migration improved mi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901782
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Dynamics of Labor Market Earnings and Sector of Employment in Urban Mexico, 1987-2002.
Duval Hernandez, Robert - 2005
This dissertation studies labor earnings mobility in the short-run and the structure of labor markets in urban Mexico, from 1987 to 2002.In the first part it gauges the average earnings mobility in the economy and whether mobility equalized longer-term earnings. It also analyzes whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466166