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Decomposing inequality changes in Uruguay : the role of formalization in the labor market
Amarante, Verónica; Arim, Rodrigo; Yapor, Mijail - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 13, pp. 1-20
inequality and in the incidence of labor informality, while similar changes also took place in other Latin American countries … on the relation between informality and wage inequality through a RIF-based regression decomposition analysis which …. These trends were observed in a period of strong economic dynamism. Most extended explanations for this declining inequality …
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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - In: The journal of development studies 60 (2024) 4, pp. 494-510
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Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
Maurizio, Roxana; Monsalvo, Ana Paula - 2021
This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …
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The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan immigration in Peru
Vera, Celia P.; Jiménez, Bruno - 2022
employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates …
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Between light and shadow : informality in the Russian labour market
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Kapeljušnikov, R. I. - 2014
evolution of the Russian labour market during the period of 2000-10 and discusses most general implications of informality to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379282
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Between Light and Shadow : Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014
evolution of the Russian labour market during the period of 2000-10 and discusses most general implications of informality to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051444
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Income tax evasion estimation in Hungary
Filep-Mosberger, Pálma; Reiff, Ádám - 2022
This paper studies labour market tax avoidance in the 2010s in Hungary, following major labour market tax reforms in the beginning of the decade. First we show that aggregate time series are broadly consistent with a "whitening" process, in which a higher fraction of incomes are declared....
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How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?
Wauthy, Xavier; Zenou, Yves - 2001
We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once employed, each worker bears an education cost proportional to his/her initial ability, this cost...
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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
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