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Essays on international trade and development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

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Essays on International Trade and Development

Heid, Benedikt - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

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Essays on International Trade and Development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance

Almeida, Rita K.; Carneiro, Pedro - 2005

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in...

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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - 2006

This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal labor and firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318560

Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the informal sector, and not working. We use a dynamic multinomial logit panel data model with random effects, explaining the labor market state of each individual during each time...

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Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia

Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical account of main channels through which the growth in transition period has affected labor market and living standards in Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate...

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Inequality and employment in a dual economy: enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil

Almeida, Rita K.; Carneiro, Pedro - 2007

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal …

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Savings for unemployment in good or bad times: options for developing countries

Robalino, David A.; Vodopivec, Milan; Bodor, András - 2009

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

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Is the wage curve formal or informal? Evidence for Colombia

Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan C.; Suriñach, Jordi - 2009

, the estimates of the elasticity of individual wages to local unemployment rates was -0.07, a value that is very close to …

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