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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225957
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2012
regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labor market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253051
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Wages and informality in developing countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2012
regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labo market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369075
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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago - 2018
informality may be reduced by either increasing or decreasing the payroll tax rate in the formal sector. They also show that a … universal social security benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786462
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Female labor force participation, labor market dynamic, and growth
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; … - 2019
The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141966
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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago - 2018
informality may be reduced by either increasing or decreasing the payroll tax rate in the formal sector. They also show that a … universal social security benefit system would decrease informality, incentivize schooling, and increase productivity at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783896
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Female labor force participation, labor market dynamic, and growth
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; … - 2019
The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959234
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Gross worker flows in the presence of informal labor markets. The Mexican experience 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071130
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Cross-subsidies, and the elasticity of informality to social expenditures
Jorge, Alonso-Ortiz; Leal-Ordoñez Julio C. - Banco de México - 2014
frictions model with informality, (ex post) heterogeneous workers, and conditional taxes and transfers. In the model, formal … informality is quite inelastic due to frictions, and due to the opposing forces of taxes and transfers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194206
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Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets. The Mexican Experience 1987-2002
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting the inferior sector of a segmented market. That said, the … counter cyclical job finding in the formal sector combined with the acyclical job finding in informality does lead to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510431