labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and … informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the …

market data reinforces the idea of a large private sector, which provides about 90% of total employment opportunities … account on average for only 10% of total employment (a share similar to that provided by public administration and state owned … enterprises). South Africa is the notable exception, with formal wage employment in the private sector representing 46% of total …

employment stability enjoyed by workers. This implies that in Italy women with highly protected and stable jobs find it easier to …

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … market shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more "greening" of …

purpose of this study is to determine whether the capital-skill complementarity framework holds for Ghana manufacturing plants … in industry and aggregate level. We use an unbalanced panel of plant-level data for manufacturing firms in Ghana during … suggest that capital-skill complimentarity holds in aggregate level and wood-furniture sector in Ghana. However, we reject the …

with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To … individual affiliation and which takes into account selection bias induced by the employment decision of individuals. Our test … results for the urban labor market in Côte d'Ivoire indeed show existence of both competitive and segmented employment in the …

Turkey, less attention has focused on how this relationship differs for informal versus formal employment. This is of utmost … importance for less developed countries where informal employment plays a significant role in the economy. Using the Turkish …