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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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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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Data on the population of reduced earnings capacity-pensioners in Germany : 2001-2020
Werhan, Katharina - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 5, pp. 585-595
Pensions for reduced earnings capacity (REC) have yearly made up about 20% of all pensions granted by the German …
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Informal Wage and Formal Sector Productivity
Marjit, Sugata - 2009
The paper attempts to find out the relationship between informal wage and innovative efforts of firms in the formal sector in countries such as India, where informal sector captures lion's share of total workforce. A firm employs both formal and informal workers to produce a good. In equilibrium...
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Labor Market Reforms and Earnings Dynamics : The Italian Case
Hoffmann, Eran; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2022
This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...
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The sources of wage growth in a developing country
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Triyana, Margaret - 2015
What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the US, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 29%, which is higher than the return to...
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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - 2014
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Employment and taxes in Latin America : an empirical study of the effects of payroll, corporate income and value-added taxes on labor outcomes
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo-González, Johanna - In: Cuadernos de economía 35 (2016), pp. 75-117
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The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia : reconciling conflicting results
Lebow, Jeremy - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-49
are also larger in cities that have a higher baseline informality rate and lower ease of starting a business. …
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Informality, labour transitions, and the livelihoods of workers in Latin America
Maurizio, Roxana; Monsalvo, Ana Paula - 2021
This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries … job and, within informality, the chance of better wages. …
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