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Tackling Business and Labour Informality in Chile
Contreras, Dante; Mello, Luiz de; Puentes, Esteban - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
Informality often arises from disincentives associated with high taxes and a restrictive regulatory framework in both … reducing labour informality. To the extent that informal businesses also hire informally, there is some room for designing … policies to tackle business informality in conjunction with those aimed at boosting formal labour contracting. Chile is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045827
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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276931
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325145
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Informal workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 countries
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern … dependent informality rates in a country went up together, suggesting that work without contract is pro-cyclical in Europe …. Dependent informality rate is inversely related to skills (measured by either schooling or occupation). The low-educated, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286002
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Illegal entrepreneurship experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337996
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255961
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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern … dependent informality rates in a country went up together, suggesting that work without contract is pro-cyclical in Europe …. Dependent informality rate is inversely related to skills (measured by either schooling or occupation). The low-educated, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216291
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136903
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281656
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Structural change and formal sector employment growth in Indonesia
Pratomo, Devanto Shasta; Manning, Chris - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 39 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
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