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Social insurance, informality and labor markets : how to protect workers while creating good jobs
Pagés, Carmen; Rigolini, Jamele; Robalino, David A. - 2013
promoting informality and reducing participation rates. These effects can be important enough to deserve consideration in policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229925
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Gender gaps in Latin American labor markets: implications from an estimated search model
Tejada, Mauricio; Piras, Claudia; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2021
gender-based contribution rate for formal employees, and changes in formality and informality costs. We find that the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486482
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Labor market search, informality, and on-the-job human capital accumulation
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago; Tejada, … - 2019
raise to informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973074
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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Algazi, Santiago Levy - 2017
-staggered entry across municipalities of a non-contributory social program. Policy experiments show that informality may be reduced by … benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a relative fiscal cost that is …
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Tax evasion, minimum wage non-compliance and informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … expansion of informality: tax revenue maximization, and poverty alleviation among workers. -- tax evasion ; minimum wage reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523458
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Contractual dualism, market power and informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011
Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in … unemployment co-exist. -- contractual dualism ; wage dualism ; employer market power ; informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310689
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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance
Almeida, Rita (contributor); Carneiro, Pedro (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115145
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Informality and mobility : evidence from Russian panel data
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2013
Informality is a defining characteristic of labor markets in developing and transition countries. This paper analyzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204504
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On-the-job search and sorting
Gautier, Pieter (contributor); Teulings, Coen N. (contributor) - 2005
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003155785
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Homo reciprocans : survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003348535