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The accessibility to employment offices in the Spanish labor market: Implications in terms of registered unemployment
Suárez, Patricia; Mayor, Matías; Cueto, Begoña - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429428
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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M.; Fugazza, Marco; Maloney, William F. - 2008
This paper examines the adjustment of developing country labor markets to macroeconomic shocks. It models as having two sectors: a formal salaried (tradable) sector that may or may not be affected by union or legislation induced wage rigidities, and an informal (nontradable) self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268792
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A note on informality in the labor market
Khamis, Melanie - 2009
This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand … the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the legalistic view, and in terms of productivity view … informality. Questions related to these various concepts, social security and benefits coverage, contractual information, legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269422
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Comparative analysis of labor market dynamics using Markov processes: an application to informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - 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/10010275820
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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012
size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291406
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Informality and segmentation in the Mexican labor market
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2015
In developing countries, some workers have formal jobs while others are occupied in informal positions. One view regarding this duality suggests that sectors are segmented, which means that a worker in the informal sector identical to another in the formal sector cannot get a formal position due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399078
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Unemployment protection for informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2013
We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium search and matching model with salaried employment and informal self-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers, which are conditional on participation in training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303256
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Simplification of labor registration in Argentina : achievements and pending issues
Ronconi, Lucas; Colina, Jorge - 2011
This paper describes the reforms aimed at simplifying the administrative procedures for labor registration and the payment of social security contributions that were carried out in Argentina in 2005 and 2007. Analysis of the legislation, as well as a survey conducted among accountants, reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303280
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The impact of Syrian refugees on natives' labor market outcomes in Turkey : evidence from a quasi-experimental design
Ceritoglu, Evren; Yunculer, H. Burcu Gurcihan; Torun, … - 2015
Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346756
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Minimum wage and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2014
This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228735