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Common ownership in labor markets
Azar, José; Qiu, Yue; Sojourner, Aaron - 2022
employee earnings in U.S. local labor markets. Between 1999 and 2017, common ownership in local labor markets has more than … doubled. Panel regressions show that employee earnings in a local labor market are negatively associated with common ownership …&P 500 index, the average annual earnings per employee of its local competitors decreases relative to the counterfactual. The …
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Informality, saving and wealth inequality in Colombia
Granda Carvajal, Catalina; Hamann S., Franz A. - 2015
features labor and capital market segmentation, and it is calibrated to replicate the saving rates, wealth inequality and …
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Wages and informality in developing countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2012
regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labo market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. -- Informality ; Unemployment …
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labor market and welfare effects of policies towards informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101150
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labor market and welfare effects of policies towards informality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100382
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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers
Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2012
We develop a model where formal sector firms pay tax and informal ones do not, but informal firms risk incurring the penalty associated with non-compliance. Workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees. Workers with higher managerial skills will run larger firms while...
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On-the-job training and the effects of insider power
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265593
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292491
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The insider-outsider theory : a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412195
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On-the-job training and the effects of insider power
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413583