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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2021
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494414
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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2020
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592319
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
Traoré, Jean Abel - In: Economic Research Guardian 3 (2013) 2, pp. 111-145
The main objective of this paper is to highlight the determinants of informal sector activity with a special focus on informal self-employment opposed to informal wage employment. For this purpose we build a theoretical framework to show the important role of education in occupational choice. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928109
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
Traoré, Jean Abel - In: Economic Research Guardian 3 (2013) 2, pp. 43-77
The main objective of this paper is to highlight the determinants of informal sector activity with a special focus on informal self-employment opposed to informal wage employment. For this purpose we build a theoretical framework to show the important role of education in occupational choice. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717455
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
Traoré, Jean Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The main objective of this paper is to highlight the determinants of informal sector activity with a special focus on informal self-employment opposed to informal wage employment. For this purpose we build a theoretical framework to show the important role of education in occupational choice. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107279
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Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
Carranza, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Rankin, Neil - 2021
We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658108
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Job search and hiring with two-sided limited information about workseekers' skills
Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; … - 2021
We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588689
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Maroc éducation et emploi une analyse théorique
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114041
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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013
between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224589
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528095