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three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self‐employment, heterogeneity in ability, and heterogeneity in age. We revisit … an iconic paradox in a class of multi‐sector labor market models in which the creation of high‐wage employment … in two distinct inverted U‐shaped relationships between unemployment and high‐wage employment, one for youth and a …

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Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies

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Employer power, labor saving technical change, and inequality

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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2009

The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply...

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Is the permanent income hypothesis really well-suited for forecasting?

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Male wages and female welfare: private markets, public goods, and intrahousehold inequality

Ghosh, Suman; Kanbur, Ravi - In: Oxford economic papers 60 (2008) 1, pp. 42-56

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Male Wages and Female Welfare : Private Markets, Public Goods, and Intrahousehold Inequality

Ghosh, Suman - 2010

We show how an apparently welfare improving phenomenon like an increase in the wage of the male member of a family can result in a seemingly paradoxical result where the entire family is worse off. There is male and female specialization in activities such that the female member is involved in a...

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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-27

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Minimum Wages And Poverty

Kanbur, Ravi; Fields, Gary - eSocialSciences - 2005

Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a minimum wage above the competitive equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in...

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