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 …

job. A second focus is how the exit probabilities differ depending on origin and gender, i.e. a segmentation aspect. The …

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 …

encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the …

standard permanent income model with intertemporally separable utility: the sensitivity of consumption to lagged consumer … sentiment and to predictable changes in current income I show that in a habit formation model the sensitivity of consumption … growth to predicted income can be to a large extent reinterpreted as a sluggish response of consumption to news Moreover the …

The standard approach to modelling consumption/saving problems is to assume that the decisionmaker is solving a dynamic … stochastic optimization problem However under realistic descriptions of utility and uncertainty the optimal consumption …