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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - In: Labour Economics 28 (2014) C, pp. 96-109
This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose, risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785261
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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimentsl evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana.  In the model I propose risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations.  Conditional on identifying the riskier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159012
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality
Maloney, William F.; Bosch, Mariano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762022
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886146
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Oznur; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886813
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Labor Mobility Across The Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence From Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu - TEK - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395530
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399386
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401057
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416951
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Defining and measuring informality in the Turkish labor market
Acar, Elif Oznur; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837137