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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125863
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Determinants of Transitions across Formal/Informal Sectors in Egypt
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2015
Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115202
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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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Labor Mobility Across The Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence From Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012
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/10010592793
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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 … first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118522
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality
Maloney, William F.; Bosch, Mariano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762022
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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In particular, we test if there is evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550306
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The formal/informal employment earnings gap: evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In particular, we test if there is evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110039
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation
Pages, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762265
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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2013
This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877247