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Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation …’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in reducing informality in the long term. Higher-skilled workers are typically … informality. …
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the changing structure of earnings in self-employment relative to salaried work. Our analysis allows workers to sort into … self-employment for different reasons, including expected earnings differentials and endogenous capital accumulation whilst …
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track toward growth and employment, apparently without rising earnings inequality. But if one digs a little deeper, Belgium …
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Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...
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Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Both gay men and...
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Examining the implications of changes in public sector wage-setting arrangements due to privatization is a relatively new area of economics research, with few studies having analyzed the effects of public sector restructuring on relative wages in developed countries. There is, however, a growing...
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, few have noted that informality and wage inequality tend to move together. Using Mexico as a case study, I show that … provide supportive evidence that in Mexico higher wage dispersion is one of the channels through which informality negatively …
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. High levels of informality have impacts on the benefits that workers receive, especially their pension benefits. I use …
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Informality, measured as the share of the employed who do not have access to social security, is high in Lebanon and … observed informality in these two countries might not be due to individual choice but more likely to exclusion from formal …
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Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for skills were better matched. As a result, skills mismatch between workers (supply) and jobs (demand) commands the ongoing attention of policymakers in many countries. Policies...
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