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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822079
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Carefree? Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain
Heitmueller, Axel; Inglis, Kirsty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822437
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Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is not easy and it is crucial to provide a valid definition of it. This paper contributes to the recent discussion of the measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276084
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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In particular, we test if there is evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550306
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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality
Card, David; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610138
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Working Hours in Japan: Who Is Time-Privileged?
Scott M. Fuess, Jr. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In the U.S. the relationship between hours worked and employee earnings has been reversed. Whereas the highest earners used to work the shortest hours, now they work the longest hours. This study examines whether such a reversal has occurred elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the...
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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine
Pignatti, Norberto; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of a lack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700935
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Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews evolution of the Russian labour market during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790520
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The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578119
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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000
Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in TAW than their peers in other firms, as opposed to prime-age and older workers. Moreover, for young workers TAW is not … associated with a stigma effect that slows wage progression after working for TAW, contrary to prime-age and older workers, in … particular males. The wage trends are also different before entering TAW. Prime-age and older workers see their wages deteriorate …
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