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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Premium? Evidence from Tajikistan
Arabsheibani, G. Reza - 2012
This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal … Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal employment wage premium across the whole earnings distribution. This … seems to be the case that the informal employment in Tajikistan is the main source of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103475
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Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt?
Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014039
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012
. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data on institutions, which cover employment protection legislation (EPL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096470
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118773
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What Do Participation Fluctuations Tell Us About Labor Supply Elasticities?
Haefke, Christian - 2011
In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119024
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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2014
This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065313
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Endogenous Labor Market Participation and the Business Cycle
Haefke, Christian - 2006
extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780475
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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2018
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and … part-time work. Transitions from full-time to involuntary part-time employment dominate this dynamics, spiking up at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910733
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert John - 2014
performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052699
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983896