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crucial to understand the main labor market outcomes of such economies. Wages offered by the public sector increase the … sector therefore acts as an additional tax for the formal private firms. Using data on workers' flows from Egypt, we show … increase of the offered wages in the public sector observed at the same time. …
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acts as an additional tax imposed on private firms. Using workers flows data from Egypt, we show that labor markets … sector wages observed at the same time. …
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crucial to understand the main labor market outcomes of such economies. Wages offered by the public sector increase the … sector therefore acts as an additional tax for the formal private firms. Using data on workers' flows from Egypt, we show … increase of the offered wages in the public sector observed at the same time. …
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informal sector employees may receive wages above marginal product. We investigate efficiency properties of an equilibrium with … at reduction of informality in set-ups with non-competitive labour markets. In particular, the conditions are given under …
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crucial to understand the main labor market outcomes of such economies. Wages offered by the public sector increase the … sector therefore acts as an additional tax for the formal private firms. Using data on workers' flows from Egypt, we show … increase of the offered wages in the public sector observed at the same time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947125
regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general … labor market, and wages are determined through bargaining between largefirms and their workers. The informal sector is found …
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This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … informality when considering the inflation-unemployment trade-off in the conduct of monetary policy. … developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where …
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unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages in the …We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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