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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - In: Labour Economics 28 (2014) C, pp. 96-109
This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose, risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option,...
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Tackling Business and Labour Informality in Chile
Contreras, Dante; Mello, Luiz de; Puentes, Esteban - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Informality often arises from disincentives associated with high taxes and a restrictive regulatory framework in both … reducing labour informality. To the extent that informal businesses also hire informally, there is some room for designing … policies to tackle business informality in conjunction with those aimed at boosting formal labour contracting. Chile is …
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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when...
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Destination Manual Worker or Clerk? Ethnic Differences in the Transition from School to Work
Hartung, Anne; Neels, Karel - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 129 (2009) 2, pp. 343-356
Investigating the transition from education to employment among school leavers from different ethnic backgrounds, this paper focuses on the structural integration of ethnic minorities through the labour market. Distinguishing blue collar and white collar employment as destination states,...
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Employment Protection: Its Effects on Different Skill Groups and on the Incentive to become Skilled
Staehler, Nikolai - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 226 (2006) 1, pp. 41-54
Employment protection affects labour market outcomes and hence the incentive to acquire skills. Using a matching model with two education levels in which workers decide ex-ante on their skill formation, it is shown that employment protection can raise the fraction of skilled workers. This will...
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Specification and Estimation of Equilibrium Search Models
Bunzel, H.; Christensen, B. J.; Jensen, P.; Kiefer, N. M.; … - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001) 1, pp. 90-126
This paper considers estimation of a pure equilibrium search model in which all heterogeneity is endogenous and due to information asymmetries, and of variations that allow better fits to the data. Measurement error and heterogeneity in the productivity levels of firms. The model is fit to a...
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The cost of job loss in carbon-intensive sectors: Evidence from Germany
Barreto, Cesar - 2023
The green transformation of the economy is expected to lead to a sharp reduction in employment in carbon-intensive industries. For designing policies to support displaced workers, it is crucial to better understand the cost of job loss, whether there are specific effects of being displaced from...
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Introduction
Addabbo, Tindara; Solinas, Giovanni - In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case …
This chapter introduces the essays in the volume starting with analysing the situation of the Italian labour market in terms of the diffusion of non standard work. Together with an analysis of its diffusion the essay discusses the characteristics of workers who are more likely to be in non...
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Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy
Addabbo, Tindara (contributor);  … - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro - AIEL
The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low participation rates (particularly...
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Atypische Beschaeftigungen und berufliche Qualifikationsrisiken im Erwerbsverlauf (Atypical employment and the risks for preservation of occupational skills)
Duetsch, Matthias; Struck, Olaf - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 58-77
Atypische Beschaeftigungsformen haben seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Infolge dieser Entwicklung werden eine Destabilisierung von Erwerbsverlaeufen sowie negative Folgewirkungen fuer atypisch Erwerbstaetige konstatiert. Vor diesem...
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