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Political change and informality : evidence from the arab spring
Elsayed, Ahmed; Wahba, Jackline - 2017
This paper examines informality during the political and economic turmoil that accompanied the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it changed by educational level right after the January Uprising of 2011. We find that over time and...
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Youth labour markets in developing and developed countries : the role of the sectoral composition of production
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
In this paper we explore the role of the sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) in explaining the behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment-population rates, and labour force participation rates between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996435
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Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?
Giles, John; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...
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The value of social security : are formal jobs better?
Madrigal, Lucia; Pagés, Carmen; Suaya, Agustina - 2016
As the population ages, low and unequal social security coverage are among the most pressing challenges in the Latin American region. On average, only 45% of workers contribute to social security, and this figure is much lower for low-income and low-skilled individuals. There are many hypotheses...
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey : evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and … ; Markov processes ; multinomial logit ; Turkey …
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Defining and measuring informality in the Turkish labor market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysıt - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive statistics. They are the enterprise definition and the...
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The formal/informal employment earnings gap : evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
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How to best fight poverty : the uneven ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfers on labor earnings
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2022
Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the program anymore. We compare the ex-post effects of conditional and unconditional cash transfer programs on labor income. We use an experiment where low-income individuals are...
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The impact of the action plan for promoting employment and combating unemployment on employment informality in Algeria
Souag, Ali; Asʿad, Rāǧī - 2017
This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated cross-section data from the Household Survey on...
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By choice or by force? : exploring the nature of informal employment in urban Mexico
Duval-Hernández, Robert - 2021
Using a special module of the 2015 Mexican Labour Force Survey with information on workers' preferences for jobs with social security coverage, I estimate that 80 per cent of informal workers in large urban areas would prefer to work in a job that provides them with such coverage. The estimation...
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