Search Results - subject:"formal–informal sector"

Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2015

formal-informal sector earnings gap of the former Socialist regimes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Second, the … labor markets - both formal and informal. By examining the incidence and determinants of the formal-informal sector earnings … is the finding of a substantively large formal-informal sector gap (favoring the formal sector), which appears to have …

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Migration magnet: The role of work experience in rural-urban wage differentials

Michaelsen, Maren; Haisken-DeNew, John - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

This study uses the nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to identify systematic differences in earnings returns to human capital endowments for formal and informal sector workers in rural and urban Mexico. Returns to experience are critical in explaining the large urban...

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Bound to lose, bound to win? The financial crisis and the informal-formal sector earnings gap in Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 13, pp. 1-34

gaps and controversies remain. By examining the incidence and determinants of the formal-informal sector earnings gap for … substantively large formal-informal sector earnings gap (favoring the formal sector)-across three alternative informality measures …

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Bound to lose, bound to win? : the financial crisis and the informal-formal sector earnings gap in Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 13, pp. 1-34

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431566

Bound to lose, bound to win? : the financial crisis and the informal-formal sector earnings gap in Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308517

Migration magnet : the role of work experience in rural–urban wage differentials

Michaelsen, Maren Marie; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404253

Formal and Informal Sector Wage Differences in Transition Economies: Evidence from Tajikistan

Huber, Peter; Rahimov, Ulugbek - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2014

Analyzing the self-selection of workers into formal and informal sector employment in Tajikistan, a poor transition economy, with higher informal sector than formal sector wages and an informal sector employment share exceeding 50 percent, we find that the selection of formal and informal sector...

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The self-selection of workers to the formal and informal in transition economies : evidence from Tajikistan

Huber, Peter; Rahimov, Ulugbek - In: Finance a úvěr 67 (2017) 2, pp. 140-164

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Designing Pension Programs to Strengthen Formal Labor Markets in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia

Widjaja, Muliadi - 2008

Despite abundant studies of the application of pension systems in developed countries, little work has been done on how to apply a sustainable pension system in developing countries. The set-up of pension systems in developed countries and developing countries are expected to be different...

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The Role of Networks in International Labour Migration: The Case of Returned Migrants in East Java

Christinawati, Evi L.; Pudjiharjo, M.; Pratomo, Devanto S. - In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 25 (2013) 1-2, pp. 95-116

This study examines the role of social networks in the overseas migration decisions of workers from East Java, Indonesia. The data for this study are obtained from a survey of 363 respondents in Sumberejo village, located in Malang district in East Java. This district is well known as one of the...

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