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Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021
Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
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Are labor market indicators telling the truth? : role of measurement error in the U.S. current population survey
Shibata, Ippei - 2019
approach, the unemployment rate is on average 0.8 percentage points (ppts) higher than the official unemployment rate, with a …-cycle fluctuations in the unemployment rate from job separation, job finding, and participation. Correcting for misclassification changes … unemployment fluctuations, while participation accounts for fewer. The methodology I propose can be applied to any other labor …
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Institutions, informality, and wage flexibility : evidence from Brazil
Estevão, Marcelo M.; Carvalho Filho, Irineu de - 2012
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Social programs and formal employment : evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
Fruttero, Anna; Leichsenring, Alexandre Ribeiro; Paiva, … - 2020
eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …
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Labor market dynamics, informality, and regulations in Latin America
David, Antonio; Pienknagura, Samuel; Roldós, Jorge E. - 2020
Labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are characterized by high levels of informality and relatively rigid regulation. This paper shows that these two features are related and together make the speed of adjustment of employment to shocks slower, especially when regulations are...
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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility : Evidence From Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2012
unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …
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Inclusivity in the labor market
ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; Ernst, Ekkehard; Merola, Rossana; … - 2021
Labor earnings are the dominant income source for most individuals. Thus, an inclusive labor market is key for ensuring inclusive growth. In this paper we propose four principles that an inclusive labor market will embody: access, fairness, protection and voice. While measuring inclusivity...
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Inequality in the Spanish labor market during the COVID-19 crisis
Lariau, Ana; Liu, Lucy Qian - 2022
We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...
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The effectiveness of job-retention schemes : COVID-19 evidence from the German states
Aiyar, Shekhar; Dao, Mai - 2021
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Macroeconomic impact of product and labor market reforms on informality and unemployment in India
Anand, Rahul; Khera, Purva - 2016
This paper investigates the implications of lowering formal regulations in labor and product markets on informality and macroeconomic outcomes in India. We estimate a DSGE model with an informal sector, and rigidities in the formal labor and product markets. Along with increasing GDP and...
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