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, China and South Africa, towards labour shortage and generally rising labour real incomes. In the acuteness of their rural …, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China ? a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment …
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Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China's industrialization and urbanisation in … motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level …
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We analyse potential dynamic benefits for a firm from having the option of adopting informal status. Informality may be … parameter values, suggesting a potential dynamic case for government support of informal firms. Informality may alternatively … profitability is disappointing, it can switch to informality. However, this result obtains for a range of parameter values so narrow …
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This article analyzes whether the large scale provision of non-contributory health services encourages workers to move away from jobs that pay contributions to social security (formal employment). Using a difference-in-differences design, that exploits the variation generated by the municipal...
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This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …
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In this paper, we study the links between time use, informal labor market, and poverty measures in two countries that strongly differ on their level of development, by means of a multidimensional poverty index, and a bivariate probit model to assess the changes in the joint probability of...
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This paper contributes to the literature examining the role played by donors' interests within International Financial Institutions by showing how the G7 and G10 countries manage to influence World Bank (WB) decisions to satisfy their interests. It demonstrates that the G7 and G10 meets the two...
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This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …
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Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation
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This paper measures the effects of food price shocks on both the level of household consumption per capita and the instability of the household consumption per capita growth rate in developing countries. In this vein, the paper explores the role of aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of...
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