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negative unintended consequences. To explore ways to mitigate these consequences, we conducted a discrete-choice experiment in …
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Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase formalization across Sub-Saharan Africa, where nine out of ten workers are informal. This paper estimates a model of self-selection with entry barriers into the formal sector to identify...
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labour market segmentation in Britain. …
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formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
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labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the … are more consistent with segmentation. …
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segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration …
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, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …
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Labour market segmentation currently is at the forefront of national and European policy debates. While the European …
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Between 2002 and 2015, temporary employment in Poland more than doubled. Poland became the country with the highest share of temporary jobs in the EU. In this paper, we study how this process affected job quality and job quantity. We analyse the gaps between temporary and permanent workers in...
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