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Labor reallocation in response to trade reform
Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496536
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451098
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Maquiladoras and informality : a mixed blessing
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features … the equilibrium with an informal sector. -- offshoring ; informal sector ; maquiladoras ; trade and labor markets ; Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489292
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Pollution, shadow economy and corruption : theory and evidence
Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - 2011
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375247
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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285538
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Do markets care about central bank governor changes? : evidence from emerging markets
Moser, Christoph (contributor); Dreher, Axel (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624920
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Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? : evidence based on a new data set
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499549
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The effect of temporary migration experience on occupational mobility in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2013
The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees ́earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765516
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659316
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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361496