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Unregistered employment poses two types of challenges to the researchers: (i) reliably evaluating the wage differential between formally and informally employed and (ii) accounting for the push and pull factors in general and the effects of business cycle in particular. We address the former...
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Shadow employment may follow from two main labour market failures. In the first, official market labour taxation distortions make it ineffective for some agents to engage in registered employment due to a tax wedge, which makes the revenues from unofficial employment higher than the...
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Shadow employment may follow from two main labour market failures. In the first, official market labour taxation distortions make it ineffective for some agents to engage in registered employment due to a tax wedge, which makes the revenues from unofficial employment higher than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112176
This paper employs a new rich source of data on worker reallocation in transition economies and provides a … decomposition of the aggregate changes into those attributable to sectoral reallocation, those attributable to transition per se and … useful in the analyses of economic transition. However, transition processes are not isolated from global trends such as a …
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This paper bases on thirty case studies performed in Polish NGOs providing active labour market services to differentiated groups of beneficiaries. Paper describes behavioural patterns of Polish non-profits which substitute the public service in implementing active labour market policies,...
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flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …
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behavior of adjusted gender wage gaps in a wide selection of transition countries. We estimate comparable measures of adjusted … gender wage gaps for a comprehensive selection of transition countries over a period spanning nearly three decades. We … combine these estimates with measures of labor market reallocation in transition economies. We identify the episodes of …
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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition … countries. We exploit this unique evidence from transition and advanced countries, to analyze the relationship between the … not explained away by transition-related phenomena. We argue that the observed divergence in time trends reflects a level …
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stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition … countries. We exploit this unique evidence from transition and advanced countries, to analyze the relationship between the … not explained away by transition-related phenomena. We argue that the ob-served divergence in time trends reflects a level …
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of micro data sets from between 1980's and 2010 for both advanced market economies and economies undergoing transition … from central planning to market based system. We show that wage inequality was initially lower in transition economies and … between structural change and wages in both advanced and post-transition economies, despite the predictions from skill …
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