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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/10008603197
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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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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period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a market …
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Although foreign subsidiaries usually perform better than the average of the hosting economies, empirical literature has also established that the selection effect is statistically significant. In this paper we attempt to evaluate its economic relevance, using a unique dataset of annual...
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Transition countries are believed to have undergone significant social and economic structural changes. Indeed, the … early transition resulted in the modification of ownership structure and recognized processes of labor reallocation as well … changes regarding the size and composition of the middle class in two transition countries, Croatia and Poland, in the period …
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This study evaluates quantitatively the context of gender discrimination in transition countries in terms of access to … the labor market. Over economic transition female labor market participation has generally weakened. Notwithstanding …, transition countries differ in institutional design, structural labor supply patterns, labor demand characteristics and the speed …
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the so-called “talent” occupations. Using data from a transition economy (Poland) we find that indeed talent occupations …
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