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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - 2017
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732030
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Money, inflation, and unemployment in the presence of informality
Lahcen, Mohammed Aït - 2017
This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where … informality when considering the inflation-unemployment trade-off in the conduct of monetary policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790433
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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Langot, François; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2016
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622730
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The impact of robots in Latin America : evidence from local labor markets
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468031
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The dynamics of labour market polarization in Chile : an analysis of the link between technical change and informality
Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023
informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280975
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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment
Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012
This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283972
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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment
Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012
This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550612
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Self-Regulation Training, Labor Market Reintegration of Unemployed Individuals, and Locus of Control - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Berger, Eva M. - 2017
Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role for labor market success. We conducted a randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self-regulation training on long-term unemployed individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964627
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Self-regulation training, labor market reintegration of unemployed individuals, and Locus of Control evidence from a natural field experiment
Berger, Eva M.; Koenig, Guenther; Mueller, Henning; … - 2016
Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role for labor market success. We conducted a randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self-regulation training on long-term unemployed individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573332
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477956