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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2013
This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877247
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Öznur; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886146
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
Acar, Elif Oznur; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886813
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Defining and measuring informality in the Turkish labor market
Acar, Elif Oznur; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative … definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for the Turkish labor market using descriptive … characteristics to the likelihood of informality are investigated using multivariate probit analysis under the two definitions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010837137
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Does risk matter for occupational choices? Experimental evidence from an African labour market
Falco, Paolo - In: Labour Economics 28 (2014) C, pp. 96-109
This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose, risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785261
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States : 1968-1993
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261866
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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No Education, No Good Jobs?Evidence on the Relationship betweenEducation and Labor Market Segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861351
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Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics
Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Goñi-Pacchioni, Edwin; Maloney, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 5, pp. 653-667
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690164
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Globalisation versus informality : evidence from developing countries
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2011
by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346442