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Understanding the effect of human capital and decent work for migrants' integration using PLS-SEM. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates the impact of human capital on the integration of Venezuelan migrants in Peru, considering decent work as a crucial mediator. The research involved a sample of 1,193 Venezuelan adults residing in Lima and applied Partial Least ...
Mirza Marvel Cequea +2 more
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Informal employment, population health, and welfare policies: A global empirical analysis between 2011-2021. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDespite informal employment being the most common type of employment globally, the empirical link between informality and health is underexplored.
Amanda E Aronsson, Indra de Soysa
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Labor informality during the pandemic: Crisis and recovery in Mexico
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2022 Informality is a structural feature of the Mexican labor market of great quantitative and qualitative importance. However, largely due to the confinement of the population, millions of informal jobs were lost in the first months of the pandemic, leading
Alfredo Hualde Alfaro +1 more
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Informal Economy and Income Distribution in Ecuador During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Revista Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2022 This paper seeks to analyze the evolution of labor informality in Ecuador during the coronavirus. The analysis uses microdata from household surveys for 2019 and 2020 to contrast the evolution of informality rate and income. A wage decomposition
Hector Alberto Botello Peñaloza +1 more
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Informalidad, productividad y flexibilidad laboral
Revista de Análisis Económico y Financiero, 2020 This document studies the relationship of labor informality with productivity and labor flexibility using data by country. It is shown that labor flexibility and productivity are negatively related to labor informality, which suggests that when labor ...
Nikita Cespedes Reynaga
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Innovation and Informality: An Analysis With the Colombian Manufacturing Industry 2007 to 2016
SAGE Open, 2023 The purpose of the research is to analyze the effects caused by the competition of companies with labor informality on the innovative behavior of companies with labor formality that compete in the same industry.
Fernando Barrios Aguirre +2 more
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Methodological and Theoretical Considerations regarding Informality on the Labor Market [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat International, 2018 Since the 1970s when the term "informality" has penetrated into economic theory by designating everything that is not subject to the legal regulations of a state until today, the concept of informality has evolved from "simple business activities carried
Cristian MARINESCU +1 more
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Life cycle, financial frictions and informal labor markets: the case of Chile
Journal of Applied Economics, 2022 We study the implications of economic policies on household’s decisions. We focus on Chile in 2019. Using a life-cycle search model and survey data, we found that an equivalent change in labor tax rates and non-contributory pensions (NCP) have opposite ...
Damian Pierri, Enrique Kawamura
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Informal Care and Labor Supply [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring's labor market activity. The employment propensity declines by around 1 percentage point among sons and 2 percentage points among daughters during the years just prior to the parent's death, ceteris paribus.
Fevang, Elisabeth +2 more
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Pensamiento Crítico, 2022 Based upon the changes of labor productivity for the economy decomposed by sectors and activities, this paper proposes three hypotheses on the relationship between the informal sector and competition for Peruvian economy in the period 2007-2018.
Mario D. Tello
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