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Administering Foreign-Worker Programs
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1982
The issue of illegal aliens has received considerable attention in recent years. Concern over the problem of illegal aliens has promulgated an array of efforts by the federal government to examine and revise immigration statutes and practices. Indeed, much debate has arisen over the possibility...
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Determinants of Transitions across Formal/Informal sectors in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel; A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118522
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
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The Chilean Labor Market: Job Creation, Quality, Inclusiveness, and Future Challenges
Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper analyzes recent labor market developments in the Chilean economy. The evidence shows a booming labor market with strong job creation since 2010. Most of the jobs created during the past three years are quality jobs—that is, jobs with a written contract and whose employers have made...
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Offshoring of Medium-skill Jobs, Polarization, and Productivity Effect: Implications for Wages and Low-skill Unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task- assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...
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Caste and Rural Youth in India: Education, Skills and Employment
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper examines the changing nature of employment situation of rural youth in India by social group status, during the last two decades. The large part of the analysis in this paper is based on the NSSO quinquennial surveys on employment and unemployment. In this respect we have used...
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Youth unemployment, firm size and reservation wages in South Africa
Rankin, Neil A.; Roberts, Gareth A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Youth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young people want or need are above those that they could reasonably expect to earn given their characteristics. Unlike previous work on the relationship between reservation wages and...
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Labor Informality: Choice or Sign of Segmentation? A Quantile Regression Approach at the Regional Level for Colombia
Cruz, Garcia; Adolfo, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The labor market in developing countries is remarkably heterogeneous with a small productive formal sector, enjoying high wages and attractive employment conditions and another large informal sector with low productivity and volatile wages. The informal sector is particularly diverse. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110743
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Labour Market Segmentation, Clusters, Mobility and Unemployment Duration with Individual Microdata
Álvarez de Toledo, Pablo; Núñez, Fernando; Usabiaga, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in the labour matching process, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented when workers of a specific...
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Labour Market Transitions and Employment Regimes: Evidence on the Flexibility-Security Nexus in Transitional Labour Markets
Muffels, Ruud; Wilthagen, Ton; Heuvel, Nick van den - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper deals with the question whether the concept of transitional labour market(TLM) might be useful to formulate hypotheses about the relationship between the size and nature of labour market transitions and the performance of employment regimes. The paper starts from the idea that the TLM...
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