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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK

Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022

We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … status) has gone through a significant transformation since 2013 with the gradual replacement of the disability living …

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Informal Unemployment and Education

Larsen, Birthe - 2011

This paper develops a four sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational at- tainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available to low educated workers....

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Roadblocks on the road to grandma's house : fertility consequences of delayed retirement

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Padula, Mario - 2015

We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension reforms in Italy, we argue that delayed retirement represents a negative shock to the supply of informal childcare for the next generation. We show that, when the maternal...

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The effect of temporary contracts on human capital accumulation in Chile

Carpio, Susana; Giuliodori, David; Rucci, Graciana; … - 2011

This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and training independently of who finance it for permanent and temporary workers in Chile. We use data from the Social Protection Survey, EPS, which allow us to construct a panel of workers with information from 2002, 2004,...

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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011

Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers’ incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015

One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...

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Enforcement and the effective regulation of labor

Ronconi, Lucas - 2015

This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory,...

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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016

The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...

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Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia

Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015

This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...

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The long-term effects of job training on labor market and skills outcomes in Chile

Doerr, Annabelle; Novella, Rafael - 2020

Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle income countries. We report medium and long-term impacts of a job training program for vulnerable workers in Chile on labor market and skill outcomes using experimental and...

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