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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy; Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216748
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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy; Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … expansion of informality: tax revenue maximization, and poverty alleviation among workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403380
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Social Insurance, Informality and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers While Creating Good Jobs
Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
promoting informality and reducing participation rates. These effects can be important enough to deserve consideration in policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734419
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Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment and offers insights into the functioning of developing country labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010788945
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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm’s use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762221
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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822912
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Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data
Slonimczyk, Fabian; Gimpelson, Vladimir - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Informality is a defining characteristic of labor markets in developing and transition countries. This paper analyzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128046
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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
informality are not countercyclical, but, if anything, pro-cyclical. Together, these challenge the conventional wisdom that has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761684
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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited
Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822307
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822504