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born children exhibit lower employment probabilities than their white native born peers. However, significant differences … were attributed white native characteristics, their wages would be considerably lower. The substantial employment gap …
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, especially in developing regions. Elasticity of employment is low and falling further. Whatever little employment expansion is … market negatively. Employment growth and elasticities are lower in regions that have had rapid globalisation. Institutional …
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are generated using 2001 and 2006 Canadian Census data. Little evidence of negative, significant impacts on employment …
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born children exhibit lower employment probabilities than their white native born peers. However, significant differences … were attributed white native characteristics, their wages would be considerably lower. The substantial employment gap …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a fall in payroll taxes on employment and wages in the presence of high labor … formality. The model suggests that the reform would increase total employment by between 0.3 to 0.5 percent and formal … employment by between 3.4 to 3.7 percent over the pre-reform scenario. In addition, formal wage rates would increase by 4 …
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This paper discusses existing scenario of informal sector employment and socio-economic challenges faced by informal … procyclical with informal employment. There is unobserved gender heterogeneity and no latent time effect. It is the only work …
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I argue in this paper that the estimation of wage curves and NAWRUs at the country level suffers from spatial aggregation bias. Using European data for the years 2000-2017, I find steeper country level wage curves and higher NAWRUs, compared to estimating at the underlying regional level. The...
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We analyze a model of wage delay in which strategic complementarity arises because each employer’s costs of violating its contracts decrease with the arrears in its labor market. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification through fixed...
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We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
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We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on...
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