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Economic Returns to Social Capital in the Urban Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Micro Evidence from Small Textile Producers in Bolivia

Annen, Kurt - EconWPA - 2005

The paper uses micro-level data obtained from surveying informal and formal small textile producers in Bolivia to estimate the economic returns to social capital. Social capital is defined as being linked to other individuals. The paper studies forms of social links that vary with respect to...

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Income Distribution and the Size of the Informal Sector

Winkelried, Diego - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies the role of income distribution as a determinant of the size of the informal sector in an economy by relying on a channel whereby inequality affects the behaviour of aggregate demand and thus influences the incentives a firm has to become informal. It is further postulated...

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POLLUTION AND WELFARE IN THE PRESENCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR: IS THERE ANY TRADE-OFF?

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

We present a three-sector general equilibrium model with an informal sector, which produces an intermediary for the formal sector, and analyze the effects of different policies on the environmental standard and welfare of the economy. Since the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution,...

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The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China

Knight, John; Quheng, Deng; Shi, Li - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

The paper examines the contentious issue of the extent of surplus labour that remains in China. China was an extreme example of a surplus labour economy, but the rapid economic growth during the period of economic reform requires a reassessment of whether the second stage of the Lewis model...

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Multi-tasking and the Returns to Experience

Chaudhury, Parama - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

In this paper, I study how an increase in the use of new work practices that involve multi-tasking has affected the returns to experience. If each task in a job has a concave learning curve, then increasing the number of tasks may increase the returns to experience. Using the Panel Study of...

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Do Wages reflect Productivity?

Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

We investigate wage and productivity profiles in the Ghanaian Manufacturing sector using matched firm and worker data …. Following Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981), we use performance appraisal as our measure of individual productivity. Controlling … productivity profiles. However, wages are steeper in large and unionized firms. This suggests that human capital theory holds for …

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Directed technical change, the elasticity of substitution and wage inequality in developing countries

Behar, Alberto - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

We develop a model of endogenous skill-biased technical change in developing countries. The model reconciles wildly dispersed existing estimates of the elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers. It also produces an estimating equation for the elasticity, which allow...

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Vocational Training and the Poaching Externality : Evidence for France.

Hocquet, L - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

In this paper, we first present a summary of the literature dealing with the question of the existence of externalities of employer provided and funded training. Using French data, we then estimate the impact of this kind of training on wages, while paying special attention to the mobility after...

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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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