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Is informal sector work an alternative to workfare benefits? : the case of pre-program expansion and economic crisis
Khamis, Melanie - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the … alternative to workfare participation before a large-scale program expansion took place. Results from the propensity score … matching indicate that observable characteristics of informal low-income workers and current workfare participants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925374
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Is informal sector work an alternative to workfare benefits? The case of pre-program expansion and economic crisis
Khamis, Melanie - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the … alternative to workfare participation before a large-scale program expansion took place. Results from the propensity score … matching indicate that observable characteristics of informal low-income workers and current workfare participants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269640
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Out of the Shadows : A Classification of Economies by the Size and Character of Their Informal Sector
Williams, Colin - 2015
discussing the implications for theory and practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009469
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Vom Ein-Euro-Jobber zum "regulären" Mitarbeiter? : eine Mixed-Methods-Evaluation zu innerbetrieblichen Übergängen aus öffentlich geförderter in sozialversicherunspflichtige Beschäf...
Hohendanner, Christian; Klemm, Matthias Peter; … - 2011
important workfare instrument of German labour Market policy and are meant to increase employability of long-term unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380739
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The case for presenteeism
Markussen, Simen; Mykletun, Arnstein; Røed, Knut - 2010
; disability ; activation ; workfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312944
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012 - September 2012
Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy with a tightened monitoring and sanction regime. In our analysis, we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the labor force....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611764
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Impact of benefit sanctions on unemployment outflow : evidence from German survey data
Hillmann, Katja; Hohenleitner, Ingrid - 2012 - October 20, 2012
Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards activation policy by tightening their monitoring and sanction regime. In our study we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009684303
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Corruption, shadow economy and income inequality : evidence from Asia
Kar, Saibal; Saha, Shrabani - 2012
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683262
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Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality : Evidence from Asia
Kar, Saibal - 2013
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088661
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A Critical Evaluation of the Policy Options Towards the Undeclared Economy
Williams, Colin - 2015
To evaluate critically the policy options available for tackling the undeclared economy, this paper commences by evaluating the implications of four hypothetical policy choices, namely doing nothing, de-regulating the declared economy, eradicating the undeclared economy, or moving undeclared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009475