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New perspectives on inequality in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Gabriela Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the …Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …
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Does it pay to work for free? : wage returns and gender differences in the market for volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
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Informality and long-run growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … and long-run growth. Our model can generate transitory informality equilibria or informality-induced poverty traps. Its … calibration reveals that the case for the poverty-trap hypothesis is strong: although informality serves to protect low …
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Nature of the relationship between minimum wage and the shadow economy size : an empirical analysis for the case of Romania
Davidescu, Adriana Ana Maria; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
informality. The results also indicated that the Romanian shadow economy decreased until 2008 to a value of approximately 27.8% of …
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The sources of wage growth in a developing country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528578
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Workforce composition, productivity, and labor regulations in a compensating differentials theory of informality
Haanwinckel, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016
closely reproduces the decline in informality observed between 2003 and 2012. The change in the composition of the labor force … the effectiveness of a progressive payroll tax in reducing informality. …
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Heterogeneous social preferences and the dynamics of free riding in public goods
Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); Gächter, Simon (contributor) - 2006
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution to a repeated public good. This allows for a novel test as to whether there are "types" of...
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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810895
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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919857
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Laws and norms
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
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