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SOCIAL SECURITY FOR UNORGANISED WORKERS IN INDIA

Dhas, Albert Christopher; Helen, Mary Jacqueline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

years in India. It is argued that India had a long tradition of informal social security and social assistance system …, housing security, employment security, income security, life and accident security, and old age security. In sum, the study … calls for a Comprehensive, Universal and Integrated Social Security System for the unorganised workers in India. …

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Technological Progress with Segmented Factor Markets and Welfare Implications for the Urban Poor

Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - Centre for Research in Economic Development and …

Motivated by a set of stylised facts based on provincial data for India, this paper investigates the incidence of urban …

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Effects of Reducing Tariffs in The Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC): A CGE Analysis

Bonga-Bonga, Lumengo; Erero, Jean Luc; Pambudi, Daniel … - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014

attention of policy makers to a different employment outcome when tariff reduction is taken into consideration. Tariff reduction … increases formal employment and output but hurts informal producers. It considerably increases the output and employment of the …

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Wage Subsidy in the DRC: A CGE Analysis

Erero, Jean Luc; Pambudi, Daniel Djauhari; Bonga, … - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013

This paper analyses wage subsidies on lower-skilled formal workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A multi-sectoral empirically-calibrated general equilibrium model capturing the economy-wide transactions between the formal and informal sectors is used to analyse one policy simulation...

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Cross-subsidies, and the elasticity of informality to social expenditures

Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge; Leal Ordonez, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In the quest to alleviate the lack of protection of an important group in the population, social programs directed to informal workers are being introduced in developing countries. How is the size of the informal sector affected when the distribution across formal and informal workers and/or the...

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The Elasticity of Informality to Taxes and Transfers

Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge; Leal Ordonez, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this work we study the impact on the size of the informal sector of a tax levied on formal workers, and transfers that may be distributed to both formal and informal workers alike. We build a search model that features an informal sector and we calibrate it to data from Mex- ico. We...

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The elasticity of Informality to Taxes and tranfers

Alonso-Ortiz, Jorge; Leal, Julio - Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), Departamento … - 2013

We study the impact on the size of the informal sector of a tax levied on formal workers, and transfers that may be distributed to both formal and informal workers alike. We build a search model that features an informal sector and we calibrate it to data from Mexico. We investigate whether...

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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations: A small open economy New Keynesian DSGE model with dual labour markets

SENBETA, Sisay Regassa - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2013

How do key macroeconomic variables of a small open economy with segmented labour markets behave in response to domestic and external shocks? In this paper we attempt to address this question by modeling the coexistence of a formal labour market with higher wage rates and search frictions, and an...

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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...

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Fear of Labor Rigidities – The Role of Expectations in Employment Growth in Peru

Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2013

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …

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