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Urbanization and Labor Market Informality in Developing Countries [PDF]
Rapid and uncontrolled migration created by the population moving from rural to urban areas causes serious problems from the viewpoint of labor markets. Increases in rural-urban migration flows is contributing to a larger urban labor supply.
Bicerli, Mustafa Kemal, Gundogan, Naci
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Revealed Informal Activity [PDF]
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 Wage Gap - New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data [PDF]
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries.
Olivier Bargain, Prudence Kwenda
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey: evidence from individual level data [PDF]
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research.
Kan, Elif Oznur, Tansel, Aysit
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Informality: Sectoral Selection and Earnings in Uruguay [PDF]
In this paper we define informal workers as those who are not contributing to the social security system. We analyse the likelihood of being informal and we estimate the differentials in earnings between sectors using both the OLS estimation and a ...
Marisa Bucheli, Rodrigo Ceni
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico [PDF]
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy.
Arias, Javier +4 more
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Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia [PDF]
We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution. We identify three main channels through which the wage distribution was affected: increasing returns to college education, changes in
Nina Pavcnik +2 more
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Metis and Latin American Cities: Talca and Its Many Small Parking Lots
ARQThe destruction and demolition of buildings following the 2010 earthquake left numerous intra-urban voids throughout Chile’s central valley. These voids, mostly located in historic city centers, were reactivated by local actors through a combination of ...
Felipe Miño
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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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Absence of a Written Employment Contract and Health Outcomes Among Employed Adults in Chile. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthBravo-Rojas G +3 more
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