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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Dividein Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Oznur - Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several …, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality inTurkey is mixed and scant … tocontribute to the limited body of stylized facts available on mobility and informality in theTurkish labor market. Next, we …

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Job Separations and Informality in theRussian Labor Market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

large worker turnover and rising informality. Weinvestigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on … of the workers in involuntary informalemployment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most …

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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality

Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...

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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature oninformality and formality in developing countries. The first is that the informal (or unregulated)sector is more competitive than the formal (or regulated) sector. The second is that contractenforcement is...

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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Complianceand Informality

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. Togauge the incidence of … informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extentof minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal … enforcement). We do so based on two objectivesderived from popular concerns associated with an unchecked expansion of informality …

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Using Online Job Vacancies to Understand the UK Labour Market from the Bottom-Up

Thurgood, James - 2018

What type of disaggregation should be used to analyse heterogeneous labour markets? How granular should that disaggregation be? Economic theory does not currently tell us; perhaps data can. Analyses typically split labour markets according to top-down classification schema such as sector or...

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...

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Temporary Contracts and Monopsony Powerin the UK Labour Market

Tabasso, Domenico - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) ina market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfectcompetition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which thelabour market is...

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How stable is labour market dualism? : reforms of employment protection in nine European countries

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2019

Labour market segmentation currently is at the forefront of national and European policy debates. While the European Commission and the OECD try to promote what they see as more inclusive policies, academic observers remain skeptical. Particularly the dualisation literature points to stable...

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Theory and evidence on employer collusion in the franchise sector

Krueger, Alan B.; Ashenfelter, Orley - 2018

In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...

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