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Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors
Prado, Mauricio - 2011
version of Ghironi and Melitz’s (2005) industry model is used to show that firms with lower productivity endogenously choose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050768
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Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
Lee, Munseob - 2016
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … productivity increases by 20.6 percent and GDP per capita increases by 6.0 percent, primarily in low-income countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005233
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908122
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Robots at work? : pitfalls of industry level data
Bekhtiar, Karim; Bittschi, Benjamin; Sellner, Richard - 2021
In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill-biased technological change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504766
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Robots at work? pitfalls of industry level data
Bekhtiar, Karim; Bittschi, Benjamin; Sellner, Richard - 2021
In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … workforce variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432819
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The long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19
This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short-run relationship. These results hold even when alternative...
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Does corruption contribute to the rise of the shadow economy? : empirical evidence from Uganda
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22
This paper investigates whether corruption has contributed to the rise of the shadow economy in Uganda. Using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach and granger causality econometric methods we find a positive relationship between corruption and the size of the shadow economy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013183994
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Earnings premiums and penalties for self-employment and informal employees around the world
Gindling, Thomas; Mossaad, Nadwa; Newhouse, David Locke - 2016
This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: Non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452234
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The shadow economy in industrial countries : reducing the size of the shadow economy requires reducing its attractiveness while improving official institutions
Enste, Dominik - 2015
The shadow (underground) economy plays a major role in many countries. People evade taxes and regulations by working in the shadow economy or by employing people illegally. On the one hand, this unregulated economic activity can result in reduced tax revenue and public goods and services, lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429964
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
A number of theoretical studies have tended to trace the nature of globalization process' impacts (mostly characterised by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442