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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family

Bauer, Jan Michael; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015

on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the … implications for family life remain under investigated. The research findings also differ strongly among subgroups, although they …

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Will you still want me tomorrow? The dynamics of families' long-term care arrangements

Sovinsky Goeree, Michelle; Hiedemann, Bridget; Stern, Steven - 2012

We estimate dynamic models of elder-care arrangements using data from the Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest … Old Survey. We model the use of institutional care, formal home health care, care provided by a child, and care provided …

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Cash wage payments in transition economies: Consequences of envelope wages

Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

In transition economies, a significant number of companies reduce their tax and social contributions by paying their staff an official salary, described in a registered formal employment agreement, and an extra, undeclared “envelope wage,” via a verbal unwritten agreement. The consequences...

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The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru

Delgado Montes, Juan Gabriel; Corrales, Javier; Singh, … - 2016

Discrimination in formal labor markets can push discriminated groups into labor informality, where wages are lower and pensions scarce. In this paper, we explore whether education offsets discrimination by empowering discriminated groups to successfully compete for formal jobs. Specifically, we...

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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor

Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015

Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a four-sector general equilibrium framework with...

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Cross-subsidies, and the elasticity of informality to social expenditures

Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge; Leal, Julio - 2014

How is the size of the informal sector affected when the distribution of social expenditures across formal and informal workers changes? Given this distribution, how is it affected when the generosity of these transfers changes? We use a search frictions model with informality, (ex post)...

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Defining informality vs mitigating its negative effects

Bulmer, Elizabeth Ruppert - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

There are more informal workers than formal workers across the globe, and yet there remains confusion as to what makes workers or firms informal and how to measure the extent of it. Informal work and informal economic activities imply large efficiency and welfare losses, in terms of low...

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Relación entre el tamaño de la economía informal y el sector empresarial en Ecuador: Evidencia de cointegración y causalidad de Granger

Casalombo, Carlos Alfredo Uquillas - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 25 (2018), pp. 215-243

The informal economy is a phenomenon that affects most of the countries of the world, mainly tax collection potential, the generation of formal employment, productivity and business efficiency. In order to elaborate an inclusive method of the most significant current contributions, an...

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The ups and downs of the gig economy, 2015-2017

Bracha, Anat; Burke, Mary A. - 2018

A variety of researchers and public entities have estimated the prevalence of nontraditional work arrangements - using diverse definitions - in recent decades, and the topic has received increasing attention in the past five years. Despite numerous media reports that the prevalence of...

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Who counts as employed? Informal work, employment status, and labor market slack

Bracha, Anat; Burke, Mary A. - 2016

Several recent studies find that as of 2015, a significant share of working-age adults in the United States participates in nonstandard work arrangements. Such arrangements tend to lack long-term employment contracts and are often referred to as "gig economy" jobs. This paper investigates the...

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