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based on their primary income sources into seven sectors characterised by varying degrees of formality/informality and …
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Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment...
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Evasion of labor market regulations in middle income countries is systemic. This is generally known as informality. In … social security contributions. In this study we analyze the role of enforcement in curbing informality in large formal firms … in Peru, where informality levels are around 70%. Through the Peruvian National Labor Control Superintendence (SUNAFIL …
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-exogenous changes in industry-level real exchange rates to explore the likelihood of informality across employers exposed to varying …
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literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as … equality between the two states, cautioning against aggregating them in a common "informality state." The parametric model …
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employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates …
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Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
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This paper explores the labor market returns to working on a victorious political campaign. Using unique administrative data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly 20 years. We identify sizable returns to working for...
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Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase …-selection with entry barriers into the formal sector to identify the extent of involuntary informality in Senegal, a representative … country in terms of levels of informality in West Africa and with one of the most rigid labor markets in the world. The …
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