Search Results - subject:"INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT"

Determinants of outsourcing domestic labour in conservative welfare states : resources and market dynamics in Germany

Shire, Karen A.; Schnell, Rainer; Noack, Marcel - 2017

Women in conservative welfare states continue to do more unpaid domestic labour than their partners. Many European countries subsidize the outsourcing of routine housework and care labor to market services through tax credits and other measures, with the aim of reducing women’s unpaid work....

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The effects of natural disasters on the labour market : do hurricanes increase informality?

Pecha Garzón, Camilo José - 2017

This paper studies the probability of formally employed men falling into informality because of exposure to hurricanes and tropical storms. It combines destruction variables calculated from historical storms’ physical characteristics at the district level with 36 quarterly rounds of labour...

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Political change and informality : evidence from the arab spring

Elsayed, Ahmed; Wahba, Jackline - 2017

the January Uprising of 2011. We find that over time and particularly after the revolution, informal employment has …

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The impact of the action plan for promoting employment and combating unemployment on employment informality in Algeria

Souag, Ali; Asʿad, Rāǧī - 2017

This paper examines whether the Action Plan for Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment, a labor market intermediation program adopted by the Algerian government in 2008, reduced the informality of employment in Algeria. Using repeated cross-section data from the Household Survey on...

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Gender and the informal economy : key challenges and policy response

Otobe, Naoko - 2017

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Is informal employment a safety net in times of crisis? : evidence from Serbia

Jaskova, Anna - In: Journal of HRM - human resource management 20 (2017) 1, pp. 11-20

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Informal employment in SCO countries : realities and prospects

Shpilina, Tatyana Mikhailovna; Kryukova, Elena Mihajlovna; … - In: European research studies 20 (2017) 2B, pp. 429-438

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How to raise pensions by legalizing informal employment

Chichkanov, Valery P.; Chistova, Elena V.; Tyrsin, … - In: Montenegrin journal of economics 13 (2017) 4, pp. 89-99

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Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur; Tumen, Semih - 2016

We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in- differences strategy and a comprehensive data set on the regional prices of CPI items, we...

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How to define and measure informal employment in developed countries? A case of Poland

Nikulin, Dagmara - 2016

The main aim of this article is to point out the possible measures of how to improve the study of informal employment … are suitable for indicating the prevalence of informal employment. Firstly, we present the most popular definitions of … informal employment, secondly we show the existing research on informal employment in Poland, and thirdly we assess the …

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