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Does risk matter for occupational choices? : experimental evvidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - 2013
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Does risk matter for occupational choices? : Experimental evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 28 (2014), pp. 96-109
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-The-Job Human Capital Accumulation
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy Algazi, Santiago; … - 2019
raise to informality. …
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Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
Haanwinckel, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2016
closely reproduces the decline in informality observed between 2003 and 2012. The change in the composition of the labor force … the effectiveness of a progressive payroll tax in reducing informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494323
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Fighting employment informality with schooling
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Haanwinckel, Daniel - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation …’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in reducing informality in the long term. Higher-skilled workers are typically … informality. …
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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago - 2018
informality may be reduced by either increasing or decreasing the payroll tax rate in the formal sector. They also show that a … universal social security benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a …
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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy Algazi, Santiago - 2017
-staggered entry across municipalities of a non-contributory social program. Policy experiments show that informality may be reduced by … benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a relative fiscal cost that is …
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Female labor force participation, labor market dynamic, and growth
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; … - 2019
The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...
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Gender Gaps in Latin American Labor Markets: Implications from an Estimated Search Model
Tejada, Mauricio; Piras, Claudia; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2021
gender-based contribution rate for formal employees, and changes in formality and informality costs. We find that the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597332