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Employer and Employee Preferences for Worker Benefits: Evidence from a Matched Survey on the Bangladesh Informal Sector
Kumar, Krishna B.; Mahmud, Minhaj; Nataraj, Shanthi; … - 2019
Informality is ubiquitous in the labor markets of developing countries, and requiring that firms formally register, pay … taxes, and provide employee benefits stipulated in labor regulations to reduce such informality is challenging. However, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984624
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Employer and employee preferences for worker benefits : evidence from a matched survey on the Bangladesh informal sector
Kumar, Krishna B.; Mahmud, Minhaj Uddin; Nataraj, Shanthi; … - 2019
Informality is ubiquitous in the labor markets of developing countries, and requiring that firms formally register, pay … taxes, and provide employee benefits stipulated in labor regulations to reduce such informality is challenging. However, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959982
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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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How high (low) are the possibilities of teleworking in Mexico?
Leyva, Gustavo; Mora, Israel - 2021
We estimate that about 10.6 percent of jobs could be done from home in Mexico, using 468 4-digit SINCO occupations and employment data in 2019. This is roughly half the estimate reported by Dingel and Neiman (2020) using teleworking criteria devised for the U.S. labor market. Owing to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162021
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Trabalho precário e informalidade: Desprecarizando suas relações conceituais e esquemas analíticos
Nogueira, Mauro Oddo; De Carvalho, Sandro Sacchet - 2021
of informality, leading us to take into consideration for the perfect understanding of the reality of the world of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269259
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Trabalho precário e informalidade: desprecarizando suas relações conceituais e esquemas analíticos
Nogueira, Mauro Oddo; Carvalho, Sandro Sacchet de - 2021
of informality, leading us to take into consideration for the perfect understanding of the reality of the world of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797369
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How high (low) are the possibilities of teleworking in Mexico?
Leyva, Gustavo; Mora, Israel - 2021
We estimate that about 10.6 percent of jobs could be done from home in Mexico, using 468 4-digit SINCO occupations and employment data in 2019. This is roughly half the estimate reported by Dingel and Neiman (2020) using teleworking criteria devised for the U.S. labor market. Owing to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012656088
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Long-term effects of initial labor market conditions on young Mexicans
Aguilar Martínez, José Pablo; Campos Rodríguez, … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-14
unemployment and informality do not change substantially. The effects are greater when the initial shock increases informality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446469
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Social Security Coverage and the Labor Market in Developing Countries
Pages, Carmen; Auerbach, Paula; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the reasons behind the low rates of participation in old age pension programs in developing countries. Using a large set of harmonized household surveys from Latin America we assess how much of the low participation can be explained by involuntary rationing out of jobs with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763694
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The Informal Labor Market in Colombia: identification and characterization
Raquel, Bernal - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2009)
In this paper, we study the extent and nature of informality in Colombia by using the new chapter on informality in the … of these new data allows us to measure informality in several ways and understand the differences and implications of … using various definitions. We show that social security contributions is a reasonable measure of informality as it is a good …
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