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Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis
Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Aly - 2010
of informal businesses. And sample designs are shaped by a narrow and in our view misleading definition of informality as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476958
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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin; Maloney, William - 2006
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … and Maloney’s (2006) findings for Mexico that the patternsof worker transitions between formality and informality … correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477112
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Entrepreneurial Entry in Developing Economies: Modeling Interactions Between the Formal and Informal Sector
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2007
formal andinformal status. Thus we explore issues such as how informality may enable anentrepreneur to test the profitability …. Also,we show that financial constraints can interact with the option of informality to induceentry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477113
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Report on the Latin American economy. First half of 2020
social tension in the final stretch of last year. Some factors, such as high labour market informality and the improvable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012524815
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A exclusão social de mulheres jovens, com idade entre 15 a 24 anos, no mercado de trabalho no Brasil
Fernandes, Rosangela Aparecida Soares; Lima, Joao … - 2008
Vários fatores como escolaridade, renda per capita, experiência, maternidade, raça, dentre outros, têm contribuído para a exclusão de mulheres jovens no mercado de trabalho. O objetivo deste artigo é identificar a situação das mulheres jovens, com idade entre 15 e 24 anos, no mercado de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446716
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Labour market outcomes in the UK, NZ, Australia and the US: observations on the impact of labour market and economic reforms
Gregory, R.G - 1999
There is no doubt that large changes in government policy towards economic reform are vitally important: some two decades ago Myanmar (Burma) was among the Asian nations with the highest per capita income but, by turning away from economic reform, government policy prevented the economy from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451609
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The future of Indigenous work: forecasts of labour force status to 2011
Hunter, Boyd; Kinfu, Yohannes; Taylor, John - 2003
The recent release of the final results for the 2001 Census presents an opportunity to assess the net change in employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the period covering the first two Howard administrations. This paper uses demographic techniques to make valid comparisons over time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451693
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Competing with dad: changes in the intergenerational distribution of male labour market income
Gregory, R.G - 1999
Two decades ago a discussion of the interactions between expenditure on the welfare system and labour market changes would have focussed on the impact of changing unemployment levels. Today, the unemployment-welfare expenditure link is still important but another factor has been added....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451694
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Was Working Nation Working?
Junankar, P N; Kapuscinski, C.A - 1997
After several months of research and consultation the previous Labor government introduced in May 1994 a set of labour market programs targeted at the long term unemployed with its publication of Working Nation. With the new Coalition government taking office in March 1996 we saw the end of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451737