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Fighting employment informality with schooling
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Haanwinckel, Daniel - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation …’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in reducing informality in the long term. Higher-skilled workers are typically … informality. …
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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries
Dell’Anno, Roberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may increase inequality …Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … opportunities for low-skilled and deprived people. Despite this positive feedback, informality raises problems for public finances …
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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries
Dell'Anno, Roberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)
. Policymakers should consider the links between inequality and informality because badly designed informality-reducing policies may …Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment … distribution by providing sources of income for unemployed and marginalized workers. Despite this positive feedback, informality …
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The labor market in Israel, 2000-2016
Larom, Tali; Lifshitz, Osnat - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
groups has increased due to growth in labor income; however, inequality between households has increased. …
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Introducing a statutory minimum wage in middle and low income countries
Margolis, David N. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive. …
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Introducing a statutory minimum wage in middle and low income countries
Margolis, David N. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
developing countries advance their development objectives, even where enforcement capacity is weak and informality is pervasive. …
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Does corruption promote emigration?
Schneider, Friedrich - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates—and among which groups—is important because most labor emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highly-educated workers to leave developing countries, it can result in a shortage...
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries?
Gindling, T. H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Do minimum wage policies reduce poverty in developing countries? It depends. Raising the minimum wage could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market characteristics. Minimum wages target formal sector workers—a minority of workers in most developing countries—many of whom do...
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Do economic reforms hurt or help the informal labor market?
Kar, Saibal - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
The evidence is mixed on whether informal labor in developing countries benefits from trade and labor market reforms. Reforms lead to higher wages and improved employment conditions in the informal sector in some cases, and to the opposite effect in others. At a cross-country level, lifting...
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries?
Gindling, T. H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market characteristics. Minimum wages target formal sector workers—a minority in most developing countries—many of whom do not live in poor households. Whether raising minimum wages...
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