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The nexus between unemployment rate and shadow economy : a comparative analysis of developed and developing countries using a simultaneous-equation model
Sahnoun, Marwa; Abdennadher, Chokri - 2019
This paper studies the effects and causal links between the shadow economy and the unemployment rate using a dynamic … suggests that there is a unidirectional and negative causality running from the unemployment rate to the shadow economy in the … shadow economy and unemployment rate. The sensitivity of the results makes the authors realize that institutional quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998826
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
In this letter I summarise the main results and contributions from my Ph.D. thesis on concentration of resources and economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in modern economic development, namely increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304117
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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries
Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - 2017
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732030
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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria: how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - 2008
in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268768
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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria : How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment
Basu, Kaushik - 2010
in developing countries have multiple equilibria—the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152351
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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
Charlot, Olivier - 2013
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085479
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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria : How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment
Basu, Kaushik; Felkey, Amanda J. - 2021
in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325308
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230678
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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria : how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment
Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Felkey, Amanda J. (contributor) - 2008
in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003661551