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Diferenciales salariales por género y región en Colombia: una aproximación con regresión por cuantiles

Galvis, Luis Armando - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL ROSARIO (2010)

RESUMEN: La existencia de brechas salariales por género es un fenómeno que, al igual que en muchos otros países, está presente en el mercado laboral colombiano. Esas brechas no son homogéneas en todo el territorio, lo que justifica un análisis detallado de lo que ocurre en cada una de las...

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To Live in the Shadows or to Die in the Light: Informality in the Russian Labor Market

Gimpelson, V.; R. Kapeliushnikov. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 11 (2013)

The paper presents major findings from the multi-year study of informality in the Russian labor market conducted by the … CLMS—HSE. The authors argue that the concept of informality though it seems to be intuitively clear is neither conceptually … related to definitions, measurement, evolution, profiling, impact of institutions, mobility, earnings and inequality. All …

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Informality in the Russian Labor Market: What Do Alternative Definitions Tell Us?

Kapeliushnikov, I. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 20 (2013) 4, pp. 52-83

According to the existing literature, informality rates for Russia vary in a wide range from slightly more than 5 to … context of the Russian labor market. Analysis shows that depending on empirical definitions informality rates considerably … the risk of informality varies considerably from one definition to another. This suggests that the existing estimates of …

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Formation du revenu, segmentation et discrimination sur le marché du travail d’une ville en développement : Antananarivo fin de siècle

Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001

The paper proposes a micro-macro model of labour market of a developing city, and its empirical implementation on the case of the capital town of Madagascar, Antananarivo. The model recognises the existence of measured and unmeasured heterogeneity of skills, preferences and opportunities within...

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Wage policies in the public sector during wholesale privatization

Nikolic, Jelena - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

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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Minimum Wages in Colombia: Holding the Middle With a Bite on the Poor

Arango, Carlos A.; Pachón, Angélica - Banco de la Republica de Colombia

This paper exploits the long history of the minimum wage in a relatively stable developing economy like Colombia in order to see whether it may alleviate the living conditions of low income families and reduce income inequality. The paper does not only explore how the minimum wage may serve...

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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining: A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Bouev, Maxim - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

at reduction of informality in set-ups with non-competitive labour markets. In particular, the conditions are given under …

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State Regulations, Job Search and Wage Bargaining : A Study in the Economics of the Informal Sector

Bouev, Maxim - 2005

at reduction of informality in set-ups with non-competitive labour markets. In particular, the conditions are given under …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064679

Finance and Employment Formalization : Evidence from Mexico's Income-Expenditure Surveys, 2000-2010

Bazdresch, Santiago - 2011

We study the relationship between financial slack and employment formalization by exploiting heterogeneity in industry-level financial dependence in the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998). We use this heterogeneity along with time-series variation in aggregate credit to determine industry level...

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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries

Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage … micro data and evaluate the labor market and welfare effects of policies towards informality. …

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