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The Impact of Structural Reforms on Wages and Employment: The Case of Formal versus Informal Workers in Bolivia
Spatz, Julius - 2003
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. To this end, we set up a small-scale macroeconomic model of a dual economy to capture the transmission mechanisms through which the deregulation of product and...
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Is the informal sector constrained from the demand side? Evidence for six West African capitals
Böhme, Marcus; Thiele, Rainer - 2011
Employing a unique dataset that covers households from six West African capitals, this paper provides new evidence on the demand for informal sector products and services. We first investigate whether demand linkages exist between formal and informal products and distribution channels, and...
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Informal-formal linkages and informal enterprise performance in urban West Africa
Böhme, Marcus; Thiele, Rainer - 2012
Employing a unique dataset that covers almost 6000 informal enterprises from six West African urban centers, this paper examines the backward and forward linkages of these enterprises to the formal sector. We first provide a descriptive analysis of the existing formal-informal linkages. It turns...
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Firm training and wage rigidity
Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2008
Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...
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Wage inequality and the changing organization of work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
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The effect of low-wage subsidies on skills and employment
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...
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Minimum wages and firm training
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006
The paper analyzes the influence of minimum wages on firms' incentive to train their employees. We show that this influence rests on two countervailing effects: minimum wages (i) augment wage compression and thereby raise firms' incentives to train and (ii) reduce the profitability of employees,...
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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Van Rens, Thijs - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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Offshoring and labour market inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
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Matching labor's share in a search and matching model
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
In the United States, labor’s share of income falls after a positive disturbance to productivity growth or inflation …, and it remains low for some time. Previous researchers have argued that the negative relationship between productivity … wages would predict the observed behavior of labor’s share after a productivity disturbance, and it also predicts the …
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