The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector [PDF]
In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal labor market, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal-sector can have important spillover effects on the informal
James Albrecht +2 more
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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa [PDF]
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal ...
Bargain, Olivier, Kwenda, Prudence
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Informal Employment and Inequality: Implications for Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary JournalA sizable level of informal employment, often stemming from social disparities and limited economic opportunities, can have great implications for migration in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Rashidat Akande +3 more
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Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa [PDF]
Before the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been using the same methodology to derive the informal sector employment throughout the years, focusing on the enterprise registration ...
Derek Yu, Hassan Essop
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Female Employment in Formal and Informal Sectors of the Serbian Economy
Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education, 2010 With the economic crisis acknowledged in 2008, unemployment strongly increased – mostly due to the fall in the industrial sector – which indicates the possible emergence of a new poor and extremely poor population, alongside the decrease of trade deficit and foreign direct investment.
Radović-Marković, Mirjana +2 more
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How to Raise Pensions by Legalizing Informal Employment [PDF]
Montenegrin Journal of Economics, 2017 The article presents the study on the problems of imbalances in the Russian pension system, which prevent ensuring the provision of decent pensions for the population at a level that is adequate to their labor contribution.
Valery P. Chichkanov +2 more
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The Effects of Labour Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector [PDF]
In this paper, we build an equilibrium search and matching model of an economy with an informal sector. Our model extends Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) by allowing for ex ante worker heterogeneity with respect to formal-sector productivity.
James Albrecht +2 more
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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wage Inequality and Employment in the Formal and Informal Sector in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2001 This paper tests the impact of the Costa Rican minimum wage policy on wage inequality and the level of employment in the formal sector (covered by minimum wage legislation) and the informal (uncovered) sector.
Hamidi, Fatma El, Terrell, Katherine
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Revealed informal activity [PDF]
, 2011 What does it mean to be in the informal sector? Many characterizations have been used in the literature, for example, firms that are unregistered or employ a small workforce or firms/economic enterprises that do not have access to formal capital markets.
Dimova, Ralitza +2 more
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The Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Output, Assets and Employment [PDF]
segmented labour markets, informal ...
Pratap, Sangeeta, Quintin, Erwan
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