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Poverty and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2015
poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …
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Welfare and the depth of informality : evidence from five African countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Poggi, Cecilia; Gutierrez Rufrancos, … - 2021
This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of … informality at the household level. It is defined as the share of activities (hours worked or income earned) without social …, showing that a household head informality dummy obscures a non-linear relationship between the depth of household informality …
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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?
Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016
Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....
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The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle income countries
Jessen, Jonas; Kluve, Jochen - 2019
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037932
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The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle income countries
Jessen, Jonas; Kluve, Jochen - 2019
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054823
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Big Data y Algoritmos para la Medición de la Pobreza y el Desarrollo
Sosa Escudero, Walter - 2023
Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....
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Employment and wage insurance within firms : worldwide evidence
Ellul, Andrew; Pagano, Marco; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2015
We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in unemployment insurance across and within countries to...
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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
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Do unemployment benefits and employment protection influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis
Rottmann, Horst - 2014
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature, our results suggest that...
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Scraping by : income and program participation after the loss of extended unemployment benefits
Rothstein, Jesse; Valletta, Robert G. - 2014
Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs. Using SIPP panel data and an event-study regression...
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