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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Inequality, income dynamics, and transitions of Mexican workers

Puggioni, Daniela; Calderón, Mariana; Cebreros, Alfonso; … - 2022

exposure to informality on future earnings. We document that workers who exit formal employment experience a significant wage …

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The effect of payroll taxes on employment and wages under high labor informality

Antón Sarabia, Arturo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

informality. For that purpose, the paper examines a recently approved tax reform in Colombia especially targeted to promote labor …

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What's Up with U.S. Wage Growth and Job Mobility?

Danninger, Stephan - 2016

Since the global financial crisis, US wage growth has been sluggish. Drawing on individual earnings data from the 2000-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair - likely owing to low entry wages of new workers - slowed down real wage growth. There are,...

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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching

Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016

While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...

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Labor Earnings Dynamics in a Developing Economy with a Large Informal Sector

B. P. Gomes, Diego - 2020

by these segments of the labor market, as well as the high frequency of transitions between them. Informality is …

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Informality, education-occupation mismatch, and wages : evidence from India

Bahl, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2023

This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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How acid are lemons? : Adverse selection and signalling for skilled labour market entrants

Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - 2012

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows...

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The frisch elasticity in labor markets with high job turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita; Rendón, Sílvio - 2012

We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We...

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