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Globalization and informal jobs in developing countries : a joint study of the International Labour Office and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization
Bacchetta, Marc; Ernst, Ekkehard; Bustamante, Juana P. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899020
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Globalization and informal jobs in developing countries : a Joint study of the International Labour Office and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization
Bacchetta, Marc; Ernst, Ekkehard; Bustamante, Juana P. - 2009
This study focuses on the relationship between trade and the growth of the informal economy in developing countries. Based on existing academic literature, complemented with new empirical research by the ILO and the WTO, the study discusses how trade reform affects different aspects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882855
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Globalization and informal jobs in developing countries : A Joint Study of the International Labour Office and the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization
Marc Bacchetta. - 2009
This study focuses on the relationship between trade and the growth of the informal economy in developing countries. Based on existing academic literature, complemented with new empirical research by the ILO and the WTO, the study discusses how trade reform affects different aspects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013544489
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Employment, inequality and globalisation : a continuous concern
Hoeven, Rolph van der (ed.) - 2011 - 1. publ.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902515
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Globalization and inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536261
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Dynamics of urban labour market and informality
Mehta, Balwant Singh; Awasthi, Ishwar Chandra - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 65 (2022) 1, pp. 19-37
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Does unemployment insurance offer incentives to take jobs in the formal sector? : unemployment insurance can protect against income loss and create formal employment
Bosch Mossi, Mariano - 2016
Unemployment insurance can be an efficient tool to provide protection for workers against unemployment and foster formal job creation in developing countries. How much workers value this protection and to what extent it allows a more efficient job search are two key parameters that determine its...
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Do payroll tax cuts boost formal jobs in developing countries? : payroll tax cuts in developing economies might be beneficial to the formal sector, even when the informal sector is...
Pagés, Carmen - 2017
Informal employment accounts for more than half of total employment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and an even higher percentage in Africa and South Asia. It is associated with lack of social insurance, low tax collection, and low productivity jobs. Lowering payroll taxes is a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630779
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The tax elasticity of formal work in African countries
McKay, Andrew D.; Pirttilä, Jukka; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019
A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...
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