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This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
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This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622730
This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government's...
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This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …
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incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
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analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …
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incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536462
incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
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increasing unemployment transfers is partially offset by a partner's lower unemployment and wages …
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that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …
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