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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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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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'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium

Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002

We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...

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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the industrial countries usually studied with matched data. We...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

with different match qualities. No search effort by the agent is needed to receive offers. Individual productivity declines … agent. A further complication is due to the unobservability of an agent’s productivity. I find that under an optimal …, agents whose productivity is relatively high tend to have a shorter unemployment duration and a higher productivity growth in …

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Estimating a Life Cycle Model with Unemployment and Human Capital Depreciation

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

. Following the loss of a job and during unemployment, an agent’s productivity declines. Using micro data, I estimate the …

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Cyclical Movements in Hours and Effort under Sticky Wages

Chang, Yongsung; Bils, Mark - EconWPA - 2002

We examine the response of a sticky-wage economy to various real and nominal shocks. In addition to variations in hours, we allow for an endogenous response in worker effort per hour. Despite wages being predetermined, the labor market clears through the effort margin. We find that the ability...

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