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Mongolia since 1990: ° The crisis of the early and mid-1990s, during which large pools of labor were released from formal …: hindering growth of the formal sector, facilitating entry for the informal sector. Formal labor markets haven't absorbed the … labor made available by the crisis and by migration and haven't fully responded to the demand for new services. The relative …
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of the hidden economy with different segments of the labor market have to be approached in a number of different ways. In … determination of the size of various segments of the labor market, while the developments of these segments also have their impact … on this specific part of the hidden economy. -- Hidden economy ; labor market ; taxation ; corruption …
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Informal care is today the form of support most commonly used in Spain by those who need help in order to carry out basic daily activities. The potential labour opportunity costs incurred by Spanish informal carers have not as yet been quantified. In this paper we use the Spanish subsample of...
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insights into the functioning of developing country labor markets. We find little evidence for the overall inferiority of the …-employment ; informality ; developing country labor markets ; Africa …
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framework with OECD best practice, rather than through “second-best” arrangements where noncompliance with rules co-exists with …
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for one third of the population of carers and less than 5 percent of the overall labor force. For the same group, a …
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This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer's knowledge (information) regarding...
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The objective of this study is to examine the impact that changes in minimum wage and the main income transfer programs have had on the economic participation of the population and the informal sector in Argentina. The magnitude and importance that both policies have had in the Argentine case...
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Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed countries, how these policies affect women's work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood. This study examines how extending the maternity leave...
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Government expenditure on formal residential care and home-help services for the elderly significantly reduces 45-59 year old women's informal care-giving affecting both the extensive and the intensive margin. Allowing for country fixed-effects and country-specific trends and correcting for...
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