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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - 2017
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732030
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Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - 2017
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744726
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957729
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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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Money, inflation, and unemployment in the presence of informality
Lahcen, Mohammed Aït - 2017
This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … money and credit coexist. An increase in inflation affects unemployment through two channels: the matching channel and the … unemployment. On the other hand, the lower impact of inflation on formal transactions where credit is partially available shifts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790433
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The impact of inequality on the informal economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285538
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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC Model
Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023
Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377436
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Estimating the size of the shadow economy : methods, problems and open questions
Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2016
This paper presents various methods for estimating the size of the shadow economy and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method exists to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy. Because of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455521
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Nonlinearity between the shadow economy and level of development
Wu, Dong Frank; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019
This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinearity of the shadow economy. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and GDP per capita. Our results imply that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022432
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Implausible large differences in the sizes of underground economies in highly developed European countries? : a comparison of different estimation methods
Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - June 6, 2017 - revised version
In this paper, first, the MIMIC estimation method is described and criticized and due to a double counting problem a correction is suggested. Second, the measurement methods used for National Accounts Statistics - the discrepancy method and two new micro survey methods - are described and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663628