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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam

Nordman, Christophe J.; Nguyen, Huu Chi; Roubaud, François - 2011

In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about informal sector income dynamics vis-à-vis the formal sector. Some works have been done in this field using household surveys, but they only consider some emerging Latin American countries and a few...

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Spatial mobility and wage profiles: The role of general and location specific human capital matching

Morkute, Gintare - 2016

firm productivity does not adequately address firm and individual level heterogeneity. Some issues that are not tackled are … expected to have the greatest impact on firm's productivity. Second, distant job matches might be a selective sample: greater … productivity levels of local and nonlocal employees. I employ the framework of Simon and Warner [Journal of Labor Economics, 10 …

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Is the Informal Sector Constrained from the Demand Side? Evidence for Six West African Capitals

Thiele, Rainer; Böhme, Marcus - 2011

Employing a unique dataset that covers households from six West African capitals, this paper provides new evidence on the demand for informal sector products and services. We first investigate whether demand linkages exist between formal and informal products and distribution channels, and...

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Moving towards "Cashlessness" in an emerging economy: A case study of latest policy steps in India

Dasgupta, Manjira - 2017

On November 08, 2016, India took a decisive step towards going “cashless” by suddenly announcing withdrawal of its existing currency notes of two highest denominations, namely, the Rs. 500/= and the Rs. 1000/=. The move, announced with a suddenness that took the entire nation by surprise,...

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Informal Economy Activities and Entrepreneurship in Russia

Kim, Byung-Yeon - 2010

This paper uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 1998 to 2004 to analyze the effect of previous informal economy activities on the creation of official entrepreneurship. We find that previous participation in the informal economy is positively associated with the...

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Intergenerational transmission of self-employed status in the informal sector: a constrained choice or better income prospects? Evidence from seven West-African countries

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - 2011

Abstract Social reproduction is the highest for self-employed as shown by an extensive literature from developed and developing countries. Very few studies however document the reason for this high intergenerational correlation of the self-employed status. The rare studies that have been done...

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Occupational Skills and the Evolution of Wages

Rinawi, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2015

The US and many European countries are witnessing substantial changes in the wage structure (Autor et al. 2006; Dustmann et al., 2009). Previous research has focused on changing returns to education and experience (Katz and Murphy, 1992), changes in the workforce composition (Lemieux, 2006), or the...

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Talent Allocation, Financial Intermediation and Growth: Evidence and Theory

Khabibulina, Liliya; Hefti, Andreas - 2015

In this paper we study the relationship between intersectoral wage inequality and economic growth. In the empirical part of the paper, we find a negative correlation of relative wages in the financial sector with respect to manufacturing sector with subsequent economic growth in case of the U.S....

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Local labour market size and qualification mismatch

Berlingieri, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labour market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, we find that male workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one they are trained for....

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Estimating regional differences in returns to education when schooling and location are determined endogenously

Suhonen, Tuomo; Pehkonen, Jaakko; Tervo, Hannu - 2010

While the growing supply of university skills is known to have agglomerated towards the large centers in Finland, there is no research knowledge available on the development of regional demands. This paper attempts to fill this gap by analyzing regional variation in the private-sector return to...

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