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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401057
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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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Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259973
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Metodologia - O Sector Informal em Moçambique: Resultados do Primeiro Inquérito Nacional (2005)
Calzaroni, Manlio; Cappiello, Antonio; Della Rocca, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837422
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599135
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157017
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113433
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A model to estimate informal economy at regional level: Theoretical and empirical investigation
Albu, Lucian-Liviu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Many problems emerge since it is widely believed that high tax rates and ineffective tax collection by government are the main causes contributing to the rise of the informal economy. Already the economists have established a relationship between tax rates and tax evasion or size of the informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789391
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Regulation, enforcement and informality: an analysis based on selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
It is claimed that introducing flexibility in regulation is a sufficient condition for curbing the level of informality … using Panel Data regression point out that regulation does not significantly affect informality. What matters is the … enforcing the regulation are more important in context of curbing the level of informality. In addition, the dissertation also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211209
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596429