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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Dividein Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Oznur - Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several …, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality inTurkey is mixed and scant … tocontribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in theTurkish labor market. Next, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486881
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861865
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Complementarities between Workplace Organisation and Human Resource Management: Evidence from Swiss Firm-Level Panel Data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010
Owing to changes in the business environment, there has been a tremendous adoption of innovativeworkplace organisation (WO) and human resource (HR) practices during the last fewdecades. Assuming a holistic perspective on human resource management (HRM), the presentstudy establishes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845689
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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of InformalLabor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper applies recent advances in the study of labor market dynamics to a representativedeveloping country with a large unregulated of “informal” sector. It confirms the relevance ofthe recent mainstream models and debates surrounding gross worker flows to the developingcountry context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862702
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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Complianceand Informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. Togauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extentof minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … enforcement). We do so based on two objectivesderived from popular concerns associated with an unchecked expansion of informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486985
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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature oninformality and formality in developing countries. The first is that the informal (or unregulated)sector is more competitive than the formal (or regulated) sector. The second is that contractenforcement is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347592
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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Powerin the UK Labour Market
Tabasso, Domenico - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) ina market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfectcompetition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which thelabour market is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347587
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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance:Evidence from German Establishment-Level Panel Data
Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2009
This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performanceusing panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to thequestion, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agencyworkers (TAWs) as a buffer stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022099
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East Germany´s Wage Gap : A non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>
East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap implied by the contractual wagesspecified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wagegap in terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005854707
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...
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