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This paper describes the results of a survey of informal-sector firms in Pakistan. Firms belong to the informal sector mainly because of scarce financial resources. There are significant differences in the level of wages and the flexibility of wages with the informal sector having both lower...
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shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …
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-to-urban migrants whose employment is mostly informal. Using three waves of nationally representative household surveys from 2014 to …
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-and its implications for the measurement of employment. Our results suggest that employment rates among US household heads … employment-to-population ratio would have been 0.25 to 1.1 percentage points higher over the 2015-2022 period and as much as 5 … informal work hours are missing from official employment surveys, partly because employed individuals do not fully report their …
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on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality …
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' transitions within the informal sector and between informal and formal employment. A binary logit model is applied to General … Household Survey panel data for the periods 2010/11, 2012/13, and 2015/16. We find that informal employment has the greatest … transition of workers within different types of informal employment. Our results further indicate that both self-employed and …
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prevalent working groups in developing countries: informal self-employment, informal employment, and formal employment. To … informal firms and with on-thejob search. The model is calibrated to India to elaborate on the impact of climate policies …
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-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …
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Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban …
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informal manufacturing in India. Implications of introducing labour laws are also discussed. Then, we highlight the vertical … relationship between formal and informal entrepreneurs in a range of rural industries in India, as these industries gear up for …
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