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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Complianceand Informality

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. Togauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extentof minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … enforcement). We do so based on two objectivesderived from popular concerns associated with an unchecked expansion of informality …

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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Basu, Arnab K. - 2011

Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in …

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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality

Basu, Arnab K. - 2012

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … expansion of informality: tax revenue maximization, and poverty alleviation among workers …

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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of InformalLabor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representativedeveloping country with a large unregulated of informal sector. It confirms the relevance ofthe recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developingcountry context,...

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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela:Testing the Divergence of Earnings and theSymmetry of Mobility Hypotheses

Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernandez, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growthperiods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We askwhether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experiencethe largest earnings gains or the...

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Sources of Wage Growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022

This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...

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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; rousssille, nina; … - 2022

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...

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Comparing Wage Gains from Small and Mass Scale Immigrant Legalization Programs

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018

Large-scale immigrant legalization programs (such as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act or the IRCA) may produce supply shocks that may affect wages of newly legalized immigrants. The effect of supply shock may be especially relevant given that certain occupations have a high density...

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Unlucky Cohorts : Estimating the Long-Term Effects of Entering the Labor Market in a Recession in Large Cross-Sectional Data Sets

Schwandt, Hannes - 2018

This paper studies the differential persistent effects of initial economic conditions for labor market entrants in the United States from 1976 to 2015 by education, gender, and race using labor force survey data. We find persistent earnings and wage reductions especially for less advantaged...

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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages

Brunner, Beatrice - 2010

We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...

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