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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
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Inequality, income dynamics, and transitions of Mexican workers
Puggioni, Daniela; Calderón, Mariana; Cebreros, Alfonso; … - 2022
exposure to informality on future earnings. We document that workers who exit formal employment experience a significant wage …
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The effect of payroll taxes on employment and wages under high labor informality
Antón Sarabia, Arturo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
informality. For that purpose, the paper examines a recently approved tax reform in Colombia especially targeted to promote labor …
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What's Up with U.S. Wage Growth and Job Mobility?
Danninger, Stephan - 2016
Since the global financial crisis, US wage growth has been sluggish. Drawing on individual earnings data from the 2000-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair - likely owing to low entry wages of new workers - slowed down real wage growth. There are,...
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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 46 (2018) 1, pp. 326-348
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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching
Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016
While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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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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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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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Langot, François; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2016
acts as an additional tax imposed on private firms. Using workers flows data from Egypt, we show that labor markets …
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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...
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