Search Results - subject:"INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT"

Informal employment and subjective well-being in urban China: do employment sector and working time flexibility matter?

Wang, Muwen - In: International Journal of Manpower 45 (2024) 9, pp. 1756-1771

Purpose This paper tests if there exists a subjective well-being gap between informal workers in the informal and formal sectors in urban China, and explores the mechanisms behind such differences. Design/methodology/approach The author develops a simple theoretical model to analyze the effects...

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Informal employment and in-work poverty in Argentina (2003-2023)

Poy, Santiago - In: El trimestre económico 91 (2024) 4/364, pp. 809-845

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Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high

Liepmann, Hannah; Pignatti, Clemente - 2021

, exploiting matched administrative and survey data with individual-level information on UB receipt, formal and informal employment … by a permanent shift of UB recipients towards informal employment, where they earn substantially lower wages. We then … exploit a kink in benefits and show that more generous UBs delay program exit through a substitution of formal with informal …

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Regímenes tributarios preferenciales para la MIPYME: Aspectos operativos, pruebas de impacto y lecciones en materia de políticas publicas

Marchese, Marco - 2021

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Cash wage payments in transition economies: Consequences of envelope wages

Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra; Williams, Colin C. - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)

In transition economies, a significant number of companies reduce their tax and social contributions by paying their staff an official salary, described in a registered formal employment agreement, and an extra, undeclared "envelope wage," via a verbal unwritten agreement. The consequences...

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By Choice or by Force? Exploring the Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico

Duval Hernández, Robert - 2021

informal employment. However, the estimated fraction of involuntary informal workers is quite high. …

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Import competition and informal employment: Empirical evidence from China

Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in …

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Import competition and informal employment: Empirical evidence from China

Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643799

Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia: The case of Renta Dignidad

Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2021

informal employment in the context of low- and middle-income countries. This paper contributes to this scant literature by … a salaried job in rural areas by about 8 percentage points, which denotes a shift from formal to informal employment. …

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Education, Lack of Complementary Investment and Underemployment In an Open Economy

Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021

In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...

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