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Informality and segmentation in the Mexican labor market
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2015
In developing countries, some workers have formal jobs while others are occupied in informal positions. One view regarding this duality suggests that sectors are segmented, which means that a worker in the informal sector identical to another in the formal sector cannot get a formal position due...
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Small firms' formalization : the stick treatment
De Giorgi, Giacomo; Ploenzke, Matthew; Rahman, Aminur - 2015
Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, and Bangladesh is no exception. The informal status of … developing-country setting to deal with the most direct and dominant form of informality: the lack of registration with the tax …
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Precautionary strategies and household savings
Aizenman, Joshua; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Noy, Ilan - 2015
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Unemployment protection for informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2013
We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium search and matching model with salaried employment and informal self-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers, which are conditional on participation in training...
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Does expanding health insurance beyond formal-sector workers encourage informality? : measuring the impact of Mexico's seguro popular
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2011
Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers’ incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of...
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …
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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, … - 2015
Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey....
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The sources of wage growth in a developing country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
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Pension design with a large informal labor market : evidence from Chile
Joubert, Clement - 2014
formal jobs rationing is limited and that mandatory pension contributions play an sizeable role in encouraging informality …
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Minimum wage and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2014
This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates …
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