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No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268182
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Education-occupation mismatch and its wage penalties in informal employment in Thailand
Vivatsurakit, Tanthaka; Vechbanyongratana, Jessica - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 1, pp. 119-141
This study examines the incidence of vertical mismatch among formal and informal workers in Thailand. Using the 2011, 2013, and 2015 Thailand Household Socio-economic Surveys, the study analyzes the relationship between vertical mismatch and wage penalties and premiums across four types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328169
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Wage inequality and informality : evidence from Mexico
Binelli, Chiara - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-18
, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that … provide supportive evidence that in Mexico higher wage dispersion is one of the channels through which informality negatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480921
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Policies for stronger productivity growth in Latvia
Yashiro, Naomitsu; Klein, Caroline; Rastrigina, Olga; … - 2019
technologies more widely across the economy. Fighting widespread informality, improving the low debt recovery through a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111112
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The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan immigration in Peru
Vera, Celia P.; Jiménez, Bruno - 2022
employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466617
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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Education, lack of complementary investment and underemployment in an open economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612938
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Automation technologies and employment at risk : the case of Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020
Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224000
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Effect of informal employment on overeducation in developing countries with a focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Mosengo, Cédrick Kalemasi; Zamo Akono, Christian Marie - 2024
The aim of this study is to assess the effect of informal employment on the occurrence of overeducation in developing countries, focusing on the specific case of the DRC. Using employment data, we determine the incidence of overeducation and we isolate the role of informal employment as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477636
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Technical Progress, Sorting, and Early Retirement
Burlon, Lorenzo - 2013
Technological progress has been shown to affect early retirement via two opposite forces. On the one hand, it increases real wages and, therefore, creates incentives to delay retirement. On the other hand, it causes an erosion of workers' skills, which raises the probability of early retirement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082109