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Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...

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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing... …

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

the number of job applications that workerssend out. The wage distribution and job search intensities are simultaneously …

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees’ productivity in relation to their contract status.This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having morethan 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued bythe National Institute...

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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...

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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of InformalLabor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representativedeveloping country with a large unregulated of informal sector. It confirms the relevance ofthe recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developingcountry context,...

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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models

Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all workers have the same probability of being hired. We arguethat selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model is isomorphic to a searchmodel under random hiring...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this...

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