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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583118
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387278
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration and risk sharing shows that risky and temporary migration … opportunities can induce an improvement in risk sharing enabling profitable migration. Accounting for improved risk sharing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648056
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Migration and informal insurance : evidence from a randomized controlled trial and a structural model
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - In: The review of economic studies : RES 89 (2022) 1, pp. 452-480
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053181
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030472
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020 - Current version: August 22, 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration and risk sharing shows that risky and temporary migration … opportunities can induce an improvement in risk sharing enabling profitable migration. Accounting for improved risk sharing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433427
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Collective labor supply with children
Blundell, Richard W.; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Meghir, … - In: Journal of political economy 113 (2005) 6, pp. 1277-1306
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003279985
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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003546918
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Maternal education home environments and the development of children and adolescents
Carneiro, Pedro Henrique; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571554