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Metodologia - O Sector Informal em Moçambique: Resultados do Primeiro Inquérito Nacional (2005)
Calzaroni, Manlio; Cappiello, Antonio; Della Rocca, Giorgio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837422
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Informal sector, productivity, and tax collection
Leal Ordóñez, Julio C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
quantitative importance of the effects of incomplete tax enforcement on aggregate output and productivity. I use a dynamic general … enforcement. My main finding is that under complete enforcement, Mexico's labor productivity and output would be 17% higher. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685045
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Productivity in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Regional Patterns and Policy Issues
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The study uses a disaggregated approach to look into Labour Productivity in the informal manufacturing sector in India … over the last two decades, especially Trends in productivity levels and regional disparities, its regional pattern, and … Factors affecting the productivity levels. Wide variation in productivity levels is observed. The Western and North …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789844
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Technological Upgradation in the Informal Manufacturing Sector: Possibilities and Problems
Mukherjee, Dipa; Mathur, Ashok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
. However, low labour productivity is one of the serious problems related to this sector. It is argued that technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260296
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Revisiting the determinants of informal sector in Burkina Faso
Traoré, Jean Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The main objective of this paper is to highlight the determinants of informal sector activity with a special focus on informal self-employment opposed to informal wage employment. For this purpose we build a theoretical framework to show the important role of education in occupational choice. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107279
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Stereotypes, segregation, and ethnic inequality
Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Disparities in economic outcomes among different ethnic, racial, or religious groups continue to be serious concerns in most economies. Relative economic standings of different groups are rather persistent, although some groups initially in disadvantaged positions successfully caught up with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113842
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Maroc éducation et emploi une analyse théorique
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114041
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The impact of body weight on occupational mobility and career development
Harris, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' weight and their employment decisions over the life cycle. I estimate a dynamic stochastic model of individuals' annual joint decisions of occupation, hours worked, and schooling. The model allows body weight to affect non-monetary costs,...
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Good Firms, Worker Flows and Productivity
Serafinelli, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
I present direct evidence on the role of firm-to-firm labor mobility in enhancing the productivity of firms located … with HWF experience increases the productivity of other (non-HWF) firms. A simulation indicates that worker flows explain … 10-15 percent of the productivity gains experienced by other firms when HWFs in the same industry are added to a local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111048
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and noninteractive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113358