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Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
Dal Bó, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico S.; Rossi, Martín A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly across recruitment sites, and job offers were subsequently randomized. Screening relied on exams designed to measure applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and...
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....
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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and … show that a reasonable amount of UC may reduce informality, while larger amounts of UC induce large disincentives to go …- conceived UC system. We show that UC finance based on payroll taxes is likely to entail an excess level of informality resulting …
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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality. …
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Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John; Rablen, Matthew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
labour market policies. To diminish informality, cutting the costs of formality is more effective than raising those of … informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279277
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach
Arias, Omar; Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …
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