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How much does the UK invest in intangible assets? Mauro Giorgio Marrano and Jonathan Haskel
Marrano, Mauro Giorgio; Haskel, Jonathan - 2006
the US. Their work suggests private sector expenditure (investment) on intangibles is about 13% (11%) of US GDP 1998 … around £116bn (10% of GDP) which is about equal to UK investment in tangible assets. Of the £127bn expenditure, (in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284183
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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Beyond dualism: Multisegmented labor markets in Ghana
Heintz, James; Slonimczyk, Fabian - 2007
Using estimates of earnings functions in Ghana, this paper examines patterns of labor market segmentation with regard … segments of the employed labor force. We find evidence of labor market segmentation between formal and informal employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287864
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Economic transition, dualism, and informality in India
Kesar, Surbhi - 2019
In much of the literature on economic development, sustained economic growth is expected to be accompanied by several interrelated processes of structure change, which involve a shift in economic activities from "traditional"/agricultural/informal to "modern"/industrial/formal sectors. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059911
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Temporary Jobs and the Exit to Open-Ended Jobs in the Swedish Labour Market
Wallette, Mårten - 2004
job. A second focus is how the exit probabilities differ depending on origin and gender, i.e. a segmentation aspect. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208474
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Causal effect of income on health: Investigating two closely related policy reforms in Austria
Schnalzenberger, Mario - 2011
experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294890
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The marginal propensity to earn, consume and save out of unearned income in South Africa
Bengtsson, Niklas - 2010
We use a rapid introduction of an unconditional cash grant (child support) in South Africa to estimate the marginal propensity to consume and earn out of a permanent change in unearned income. We find that the marginal propensity to earn is about to -0.25 for single-adult households, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321432
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Cash by Any Other Name? Evidence on Labelling from the UK Winter Fuel Payment
Beatty, Timothy K. M.; Blow, Laura; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2012
Standard economic theory implies that the labelling of cash transfers or cash-equivalents (e.g. child benefits, food stamps) should have no effect on spending patterns. The empirical literature to date does not contradict this proposition. We study the UK Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), a cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500210
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Job Quality and Employment of Older People in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Schnalzenberger, Mario; … - 2011
We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294900
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Health, work capacity and retirement in Sweden
Johansson, Per; Laun, Lisa; Palme, Mårten - 2015
Following an era of a development towards earlier retirement, there has been a reversed trend to later exit from the labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and work capacity of the population, for extending this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695383