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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859639
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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets : Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002
Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - 2021
and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316968
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Empirical Labor Search : A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319635
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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273738
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Termination of Dynamic Contracts in an EquilibriumLabor Market Model (2008 update)
Wang, Cheng - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008
In an equilibrium model of the labor market, workers and firms enter intodynamic contracts that can potentially last forever, but are subject to optimalterminations. Upon termination, the firm hires a new worker, and the workerwho is terminated receives a termination contract from the firm and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360882
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Dividein Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Oznur - Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several …, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality inTurkey is mixed and scant … tocontribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in theTurkish labor market. Next, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486881
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Job Separations and Informality in theRussian Labor Market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
large worker turnover and rising informality. Weinvestigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on … of the workers in involuntary informalemployment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486984
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general … regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360540
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861865
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319881