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226 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3145
The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size
Eliane El Badaoui, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3094
Inequality and Employment in a Dual Economy: Enforcement of Labor Regulation in Brazil
Rita K. Almeida, Pedro Carneiro
substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5902
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3038
Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality
Mariano Bosch, William F. Maloney
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 621-631
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2979
Social Security Coverage and the Labor Market in Developing Countries
Paula Auerbach, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Carmen Pagés
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2970
The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goni Pacchioni, William F. Maloney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2950
Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
John Bennett, Saul Estrin
published as 'Informal firms in developing countries: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize?' in Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 53-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2921
An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Hugo R. Nopo
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 292-296
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2864
Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets: Evidence from Mexico, 1987-2002
Mariano Bosch, William F. Maloney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2842
Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac
published in: Econometrica, 2008, 76(4), 679-726
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2648
Informal and Formal Care in Europe
Tarja Viitanen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2473
On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
Andrew Henley, Reza Arabsheibani, Francisco G. Carneiro
published in: World Development, 2009, 37(5), 992-1003
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2349
Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Isabel Günther, Andrey Launov
revised version published as 'Informal employment in developing countries: Opportunity or last resort?' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 88-98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2295
Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Adama Konseiga, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, Yazoumé Yé
published in: M. Collinson, K. Adazu, M. White, S. Findley, (eds.), The Dynamics of Migration, Health and Livelihoods: INDEPTH Network Perspectives, Ashgate, 2009, 128 - 138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2141
The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector
James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro, Susan Vroman
published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2010
Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
Axel Heitmueller, Pierre-Carl Michaud
published as "A dynamic analysis of informal care and employment in England" (with Zafar Nazarov) in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 455-465
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1759
Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance
Rita K. Almeida, Pedro Carneiro
published as 'Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 28-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1366
The Chicken or the Egg? Endogeneity in Labour Market Participation of Informal Carers in England
Axel Heitmueller
revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (3), 536-559
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1111
New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
Massimiliano Bratti, Emilia Del Bono, Daniela Vuri
revised version published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 79–121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1089
The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
Sara Lemos
published as: 'Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country' in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 224-237.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1072
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices
Sara Lemos
published as: 'A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 187-212.
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