Showing 1 - 10 of 89
, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884099
labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the … are more consistent with segmentation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233913
segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788728
with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566443
formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761815
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762265
labour market segmentation in Britain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762375
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884118
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884299