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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...
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gender-based contribution rate for formal employees, and changes in formality and informality costs. We find that the impact …
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raise to informality. …
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-staggered entry across municipalities of a non-contributory social program. Policy experiments show that informality may be reduced by … benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a relative fiscal cost that is …
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informality may be reduced by either increasing or decreasing the payroll tax rate in the formal sector. They also show that a … universal social security benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a …
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The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...
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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 …
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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 …
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