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The effect of Chinese import competition on El Salvador's labor market
Li, Kun; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2019
study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition, informality has decreased in the former sector and increased in the latter. This change in labor … informality is mainly observed among unskilled workers. The informality of workers with high-school diplomas is not affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142019
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Deconstructing Informality: A Response to Vulnerability or an Optimal Choice?
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon; Liang, Zhe - 2016
implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried … the detrimental impacts of informality on casual workers. Experimental interventions could be tried along the lines of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525031
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Informal employment in emerging and transition econimies : reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic growth
Slonimczyk, Fabián - 2014
opportunities to enter the formal sector. Reducing informality requires better enforcement, more reasonable regulation, and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417249
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The impact of Syrian refugees on natives' labor market outcomes in Turkey : evidence from a quasi-experimental design
Ceritoglu, Evren; Yunculer, H. Burcu Gurcihan; Torun, … - 2015
Civil war in Syria, which started in March 2011, has led to a massive wave of forced immigration from the Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey. This paper exploits this natural experiment to estimate the impact of Syrian refugees on the labor market outcomes of natives in Turkey....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346756
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Workforce composition, productivity, and labor regulations in a compensating differentials theory of informality
Haanwinckel, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016
closely reproduces the decline in informality observed between 2003 and 2012. The change in the composition of the labor force … the effectiveness of a progressive payroll tax in reducing informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476551
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What aspects of formality do workers value? : evidence from a choice experiment in Bangladesh
Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2019
Using a choice experiment among 2,000 workers in Bangladesh, we to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for specific job benefits typically associated with formal employment. We find that workers value job stability the most; the average worker would be willing to forego a 27 percent increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977559
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Discrimination in a search and matching model with self-employment
Lain, Jonathan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 9 (2019) 6, pp. 1-35
In many urban African labour markets, women outnumber men in self-employment, even though gender earnings gaps are larger for the self-employed than the wage-employed. In this paper, we suggest an explanation for this pattern using a search and matching model that allows for individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064011
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The effect of Chinese import competition on El Salvador's labor market
Li, Kun; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2019
study three sets of outcomes: manufacturing employment, labor informality, and average wage. We find that rising Chinese … import competition, informality has decreased in the former sector and increased in the latter. This change in labor … informality is mainly observed among unskilled workers. The informality of workers with high-school diplomas is not affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126976
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Who is covered and who underreports : an empirical analysis of access to social insurance on the Egyptian labor market
Roushdy, Rania; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamics and determinants of having access to social insurance coverage on the Egyptian labor market among wage and non-wage workers. The paper explores two issues: the worker- and enterprise- level determinants of having access to social insurance and the risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110554
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Informality and segmentation in the Mexican labor market
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2015
In developing countries, some workers have formal jobs while others are occupied in informal positions. One view regarding this duality suggests that sectors are segmented, which means that a worker in the informal sector identical to another in the formal sector cannot get a formal position due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399078