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Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Langot, Francois; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2016
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Langot, François; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2016
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622730
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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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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Structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the...
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard van den; Vroman, Susan - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 129-146
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...
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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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The labor market effects of Venezuelan migration to Colombia : reconciling conflicting results
Lebow, Jeremy - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-49
are also larger in cities that have a higher baseline informality rate and lower ease of starting a business. …
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Informality and the expansion of social protection programs: Evidence from Mexico
Azuara, Oliver; Marinescu, Ioana - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 938-950
level, we estimate that Seguro Popular had no effect on informality in the overall population. Informality did increase by 1 …
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