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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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Mexico in the 1990s: the Main Cross-Sectional Facts
Binelli, Chiara; Attanasio, Orazio - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 13 (2010) 1, pp. 238-264
informality and in wage inequality. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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Money v.s. prestige: Cultural attitudes and occupational choices
Zhan, Crystal - In: Labour Economics 32 (2015) C, pp. 44-56
This paper studies the occupational choices of highly educated native-born American males and links their choices to cultural attitudes toward pecuniary rewards and social prestige in their ancestral countries. These cultural attitudes were reported in the World Values Survey, which surveyed...
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The causal status of social capital in labor markets
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Galperin, Roman V. - 2012
There is a rich tradition of research on how social capital operates in the labor market. Much of this research adopts a supply-side perspective, and examines how network factors influence job seekers' success in the labor market. Recent research by Mouw (2003, 2006), however, has called into...
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Chapter 31. The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs
Heckman, James J.; Lalonde, Robert J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part A, (pp. 1865-2097). 1999
Policy makers view public sector-sponsored employment and training programs and other active labor market policies as tools for integrating the unemployed and economically disadvantaged into the work force. Few public sector programs have received such intensive scrutiny, and been subjected to...
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Participation in the Labor Supply in Latin America, 2000–2008
Caceres, Luis Rene - In: Journal of Developing Areas 47 (2013) 1, pp. 241-261
This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in the labor supply in a sample of ten Latin American countries. To this end, a VAR model is estimated with the variables economic growth, wages, unemployment and participation rate. A first section discusses the evolution and determining...
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Employment Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2006
The present study examines the evolution of employment and labour market trends in the new EU member states (NMS), the accession countries (ACs) and the countries of Southeastern Europe (SEE) over the past decade and a half. It focuses on selected labour market indicators and compares them with...
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Investing Efficiently in Education and Active Labour Market Policies in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
In Slovakia, educational outcomes are below the OECD average and are too dependent on the socioeconomic background of students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active labour market policies are very low by international...
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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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