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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100382
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101150
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2013
existence allows firms to operate in an environment where wage and regulatory costs are lower. On the other hand informality … informality. In particular, we evaluate the impact of a tighter regulatory framework on employment in the formal and the informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875477
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252327
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Returns to Qualification in Informal Employment: A Study of Urban Youth in Egypt
Frost, Jon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Informal employment is a reality for roughly two-thirds of economically active youth in urban Egypt, and it has been argued to be correlated with poverty, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement. This essay analyzes whether informal employment rewards job qualification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961518
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583118
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Economics Department, Yale University - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706039
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Segmentación del mercado de trabajo en la Argentina
Paz, Jorge - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2013)
En este artículo se analiza la segmentación laboral en el mercado de trabajo de la Argentina. Un mercado laboral está segmentado si trabajadores comparables arrojan diferencias en resultados (ejemplo, salarios), si sus mecanismos de fijación de remuneraciones difieren y si hay barreras que...
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Formal but less equal: Gender wage gaps in formal and informal jobs in Brazil
Ben Yahmed, Sarra - 2016
In developing countries, a large share of employees work informally and are not covered by employment protection legislation. I study here how gender wage inequality differs across formal and informal jobs in Brazil. The raw gender wage gap is higher in informal jobs (13%) compared to formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571969
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Wage inequality and informality: Evidence from Mexico
Binelli, Chiara - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-18
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603741