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informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …
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Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh...
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underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed … downgrading for routine manual workers: workers in routine manual formal employment become increasingly unemployed or use … informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non …
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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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employees who are under a dual condition of stress; namely, the pandemic and the risk of job loss. The hypothesis of employment …, to participate in training measures for: a similar job, remote working, and self-employment. Findings from a seemingly …
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This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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decades before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on the impact of public wage and employment policy changes. A …
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Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … adoption, such as Indonesia. Second, the analysis finds significant positive employment spillovers from automation in …
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