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, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …
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labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the … are more consistent with segmentation. …
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formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
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labour market segmentation in Britain. …
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segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration …
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with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To …
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In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the … hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector income in some of the quantiles, if the level of durable goods consumption … income among the public sector workers. The 2004-05 survey of income and consumption by workers in both private and public …
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This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
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