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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings: a marginal treatment effects approach
Arias, Omar; Khamis, Melanie - 2008
informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on informality and self-employment and information on labor inspections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271241
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: Evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysit; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282377
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Labor Mobility Across The Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence From Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324359
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Tansel, Aysit; Oznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several …, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and …. In this way, we aim to contribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500199
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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601027
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Self-employment in an equilibrium model of the labor market
Bradley, Jake - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-30
Self-employed workers account for between 8 and 30 % of participants in the labor markets of OECD countries (Blanchower, Self-employment: more may not be better, 2004). This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium model of the labor market that accounts for this sizable proportion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524875
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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158055
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295149
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289362
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001