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Labor retrenchment laws and their effect on wages and employment : a theoretical investigation

Basu, Kaushik; Fields, Gary S.; Debgupta, Shub - In: New and enduring themes in development economics, (pp. 181-205). 2009

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Self-employment and poverty in developing countries : the right policies can help the self-employed to boost their earnings above the poverty level and earn more for the work they...

Fields, Gary S. - 2014

A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of the world's poor people are self-employed, but because there are few opportunities in most developing countries for them to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard...

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Earnings and employment dynamics for Africans in post-apartheid South Africa : a panel study of KwaZulu-Natal

Cichello, Paul L.; Fields, Gary S.; Leibbrandt, Murray - In: Journal of African economies 14 (2005) 2, pp. 143-190

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Household income dynamics : a four-country story

Fields, Gary S.; Cichello, Paul L.; Freije, Samuel; … - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 40 (2003) 2, pp. 30-54

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Labor retrenchment laws and their effect on wages and employment : a theoretical investigation

Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Fields, Gary S. (contributor); … - 2007

model reveals that an anti-retrenchment law can cause wages and employment to rise or fall, depending on the parametric … raises wages and employment. In a subsequent section we assume that the law specifies exogenously the amount of compensation …, equilibrium wages fall. However beyond a certain point, further rises in s cause wages to rise. In other words, the relation …