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Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions
Muravyev, Alexander; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-72, including women. In addition, minimum wage hikes are associated with an increase in informal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959630
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
heterogeneity at three different levels: the worker, the job (wage employment vs. self-employment) and the earnings distribution. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212747
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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 … informal employment and to analyze its determinants. We demonstrate that the incidence of informal employment varies across the … different definitions. However, the determinants of informal employment are roughly stable across the different measures as long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276084
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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216291
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and … a significant negative impact on prevalence of both types of informal employment. The share of non-contracted employees … falls with stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) and higher tax wedge on labor. Thus it appears that in Europe at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216293
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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper uses data from a random draw of the 2005 Chinese national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416955
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
Koettl, Johannes; Weber, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The analysis presented in this paper defines three different synthetic measurements of disincentives for formal work: two standard measurements, namely the tax wedge and the marginal effective tax rate (METR); and a new, innovative measurement called formalization tax rate (FTR). The novelty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646318
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Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604105
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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
Henley, Andrew; Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Carneiro, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
informality. This paper investigates the degree of congruence between three definitions of informality based on employment … contract registration, on social security protection and the characteristics of the employer and employment using Brazilian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763755
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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region … is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In … employment and self-employment. …
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