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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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employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both …
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We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components of income inequality in Mexico …
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Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made … misallocate resources toward lower-productivity firms impedes Mexico from taking full advantage of its investments in the human …
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is used for illustration as a special case of our more general framework. Empirical evidence from Mexico is provided and …
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is used for illustration as a special case of our more general framework. Empirical evidence from Mexico is provided and …
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As governments worldwide increase their commitments to tackling climate change, the number of low-carbon jobs are expected to grow rapidly. Here we provide evidence on the characteristics of low-carbon jobs in the US using comprehensive online job postings data between 2010-2019. By accurately...
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This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
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This paper investigates whether the diffusion of tangible IT and CT capital and intangible capital asset types has an impact on labour demand growth and the share of labour income in total income at the industry and country level. The econometric analysis is derived from a Cobb-Douglas...
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We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure...
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