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Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy perspective, it is important to know whether this gap is due to differences in the characteristics of White and Ethnic Minority groups (which reduce the employability of Ethnic...

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Unemployment in Bolivia: Risks and Labor Market Policies

Hernani, Werner; Villegas, Maria; Yanez, Ernesto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

infor- mality, protection policies are second best to active policies specifically designed to increase the productivity …

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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What happens when a previously uncovered labour market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no statistically significant effects on the intensive or...

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Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Uruguay

Amarante, Veronica; Arim, Rodrigo; Dean, Andres - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper considers the main institutional features of the Uruguayan labor market and its recent evolution, with a focus on unemployment. The main policies aimed at protecting workers against unemployment are analyzed. Using administrative data from social security records, the paper studies...

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Fiscal Policy and Labor Markets at Times of Public Debt

Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper explores the empirical relevance of public debt accumulation for labor market institutions and outcomes. In theory, since debt service obligations act as a constraint on policy choices, past debt accumulation and current interest rates should influence reform incentives and labor...

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Simplificación del registro laboral en Argentina: Logros obtenidos y problemas pendientes

Ronconi, Lucas; Colina, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

En este documento se describen las reformas dirigidas a simplificar el registro laboral y el pago de contribuciones sociales implementadas en Argentina en 2005 y 2007. En base al análisis de la normativa y a una encuesta a contadores, resulta que las reformas redujeron la carga administrativa,...

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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...

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Demographic Change and Medical Care

Winter, Jay M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985

This paper examines the implications for health policy of recent demographic trends. It examines the remarkable succession of a 'baby boom' generation followed by a 'baby bust' generation in most Western countries. After reviewing the explanatory literature, and rejecting the likelihood of any...

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Is Informality a Good Measure of Job Quality? Evidence from Job Satisfaction Data

Pages, Carmen; Madrigal, Lucia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

number of studies argue that, at least for some workers, the informality status may be driven by choice rather than exclusion … different types of informal jobs. More importantly, the results suggest that across different definitions, informality does not …

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Informality: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses

Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

A stylized prediction of the development economics discourse is that informality will disappear with development. And … yet in the last twenty years conventional measures of informality, far from declining, have either remained stagnant or … have actually increased. What exactly is informality and what are its magnitudes and trends? What are the causes of …

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