and we find the sensitivity of the bias to the former to be greatest. Despite this, and as a result of the wide …

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 …

Using estimates of earnings functions in Ghana, this paper examines patterns of labor market segmentation with regard … segments of the employed labor force. We find evidence of labor market segmentation between formal and informal employment and …

job. A second focus is how the exit probabilities differ depending on origin and gender, i.e. a segmentation aspect. The …

This paper addresses the issue of forecasting the term structure. We provide a unified state-space modelling framework … factors, on the forecasting performance. Using US yield curve data, we find that both no-arbitrage and large info help in … forecasting but no model uniformly dominates the other. No-arbitrage models are more useful at shorter horizon for shorter …