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What is in a job? : the social context of youth employment issues in Africa

Ismail, Olawale - In: Journal of African economies 25 (2016), pp. 37-60

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Interactions between formal and informal labor dynamics : revealing job flows from household surveys

Morales, Leonardo Fabio; Hermida, Didier; Dávalos, Eleonora - 2019

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Migrating out of a crowded labor market : evidence from Egypt

David, Anda; Jarreau, Joachim - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 6, pp. 1-28

migration propensity, due to migration costs; a larger network of past emigrants from the same community mitigates this …

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Technological change and the Mexican labor market : the role of tasks

Meza González, Liliana; Rodríguez Pérez, Reyna Elizabeth - In: Estudios económicos 37 (2022) 1, pp. 3-43

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Lockdown stringency and employment formality : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa

Köhler, Timothy; Bhorat, Haroon; Hill, Robert; … - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-28

. Furthermore, we observe important effect heterogeneity by employment formality as the stringency of the country’s lockdown …

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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, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 6 (2017) 5, pp. 1-28

Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration from Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey, which later had serious economic/political repercussions on the MENA region and most of Europe. This paper exploits this natural experiment to...

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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...

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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 …

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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....

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Labour markets in low-income countries: Challenges and opportunities

Lam, David; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2022

Employment and job creation are key components in achieving economic growth and sustainable development, particularly in low-income countries. The growing size of the working-age population in many developing regions underscores the need to further strengthen labour market structures in the...

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