human capital accumulation on and off the job. A stable macroeconomy is a pre-condition for reducing unemployment, but a …

reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can be annulled by shifts in the public sector employment and wage … policies. Since the public sector accounts for a substantial share of employment in developing countries, this approach is … empirically and theoretically that the liberalization of labor markets plays against informal employment by increasing the …

% compared to what would prevail in the absence of the minimum wage, an effect attributable to (i) unemployment effects of the …

regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …

reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can be annulled by shifts in the public sector employment and wage … policies. Since the public sector accounts for a substantial share of employment in developing countries, this approach is … empirically and theoretically that the liberalization of labor markets plays against informal employment by increasing the …

% compared to what would prevail in the absence of the minimum wage, an effect attributable to (i) unemployment effects of the …

In much of the literature on economic development, sustained economic growth is expected to be accompanied by several … economic well-being. In this paper, we examine the Indian economy using the only available household-level pan-India panel data … over the high growth period between 2005 and 2011-12, to analyse the patterns and natures of household-level transitions …

In much of the literature on economic development, sustained economic growth is expected to be accompanied by several … economic well-being. In this paper, we examine the Indian economy using the only available household-level pan-India panel data … over the high growth period between 2005 and 2011-12, to analyse the patterns and natures of household-level transitions …

spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the … increase in employment: a rise in informal-sector employment more than compensates for job losses in the formal sector. This …

Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment … informal employment we analyze whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal employment than their non … employment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most part, but there seems a minority of quitting …