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Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform … labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered …) manufacturing enterprises in India (1990-2001). It employs a difference-in-differences strategy and finds that tariff reductions are …
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shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …
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Despite very low unemployment in the United States in recent months, wage inflation has remained modest. This paper investigates the possibility that there is hidden labor market slack in the form of informal or gig economy work, which may help explain this wage growth puzzle. Using unique data...
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the informal sector. Since the early 2000s, a secular shift of employment toward the less volatile formal sector has …
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different impacts by gender, sector, and status in employment. The findings show that both relative and absolute job losses have … been greater in the informal economy, while the rate and level of recovery have been greater for formal employment. Further …
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using several waves of a panel of individual employment data. Economic growth is rarely balanced in a sectoral sense, and … sectors in which formal employment rates are high, causing some degree of involuntary labor movement from formal to informal … modes of employment. We explore this econometrically and find that the earnings of workers displaced from formal to informal …
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, and domestic resource endowment of each product. Developing countries like India and China suggested a higher trade …
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on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality …
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-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …
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-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our results suggest that employment rates among US household heads … employment-to-population ratio would have been 0.25 to 1.1 percentage points higher over the 2015-2022 period and as much as 5 … informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their …
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