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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
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We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey, a quarterly … household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid economic growth …
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This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries …
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We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by the formal sector to the lower wage informal sector. An improvement in the productivity in...
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; self-employment ; job history ; Mexico …
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Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We …
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This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representative developing country with a large unregulated of "informal" sector. It confirms the relevance of the recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developing country context,...
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