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Despite very low unemployment in the United States in recent months, wage inflation has remained modest. This paper investigates the possibility that there is hidden labor market slack in the form of informal or gig economy work, which may help explain this wage growth puzzle. Using unique data...
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drywall and flooring) were informal.Informal employment in California construction has increased by 400 percent since 1972 …
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This paper assesses whether the growth of informal construction employment and activities in Tanzania are a boon or … bane for informal workers. It examines the importance of employment and income provision, employment conditions, and … employment and income to people, although a significant number of employees work without contracts and pensions. The level of …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our results suggest that employment rates among US household heads … employment-to-population ratio would have been 0.25 to 1.1 percentage points higher over the 2015-2022 period and as much as 5 … informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their …
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Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform … labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered … not associated with significant employment shifts in informal enterprises, a finding that may be attributable to the fact …
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