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This book looks at the links between the formal and informal labor market in developing and transition economies, working towards an accurate understanding of labour markets and analyzing alternative policy proposals.
Table des matières
1. Labor Markets and
Development: Overview
Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar Part I: Employment, Poverty and Labor Market Dynamics 2. Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction?
Catalina Gutierrez, Pierella Paci, Carlo Orecchia, and Pieter Serneels 3. Employment Elasticity in Organized Manufacturing in India
Dipak Mazumdar and Sandip Sarkar 4. Wage Determination and Wage Inequality inside a Russian Firm in Late Transition: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997-2002
Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark E. Schaffer 5. Education and Youth Unemployment in South Africa
David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and Cecil Mlatsheni 6. Analysis of Attrition Patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000-2002
Insan Tunali Part II: Formality, Informality and Labor Market Regulation 7. Monopsonistic Competition in Formal and Informal Labor Markets
Ted To 8. Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
John Bennett and Saul Estrin 9. Multiple-Job-Holding in Tanzania
Theis Theisen 10. Regulation of Entry, Informality and Policy Complementarities
Mariano Bosch 11. Can Social Programs Reduce Productivity and Growth? A Hypothesis for Mexico
Santiago Levy 12. Minimum Wages in Kenya
Mabel Andalón and Carmen Pagés 13. Labour Market Flexibility: Insurance Versus Efficiency and the Indian Experience
Errol D'Souza 14. Labor Productivity Growth, Informal Wage and Capital Mobility: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Sugata Marjit and Saibal Kar Part III Trade and Labor 15. Trade and Labor Standards: New Empirical Evidence
Yiagadeesen Samy and Vivek H. Dehejia 16. Ann Harrison and Jason Scorse Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? Evidence from the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector 17. Gender Inequality in the Labor Market During Economic Transition: Changes in India's Manufacturing Sector
Nidhiya Menon and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers Part IV Human Capital, Productivity and Gender 18. Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Niels-Hugo Blunch 19. Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition
Johannes Gernandt and Friedhelm Pfeiffer 20. Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
Gautum Hazarika and Arjun S. Bedi 21. Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Sticky Doors? A Quantile Regression Approach to Exploring Gender Wage Gaps in Sri Lanka
Dileni Gunewardena, Darshi Abeyrathna, Amalie Ellagala, Kamani Rajakaruna and Shobana Rajendran et. al 22. Training and Enterprise Performance: Survey Evidence from Transition Countries in Central and Eastern Europe
Joe Colombano and Libor Krkoska Skills 23. Exploring Gender Wage "Discrimination" in South Africa, 1995-2004: A Quantile Regression Approach
Miracle Ntuli 24.The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Francesco Pastore and Alina Verashchagina 25. Islands Through the Glass Ceiling? Evidence of Gender Wage Gaps in Madagascar and Mauritius
Christophe J. Nordman and Francois-Charles Wolff
A propos de l'auteur
Ravi Kanbur is T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University
Jan Svejnar is Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
Résumé
This book looks at the links between the formal and informal labor market in developing and transition economies, working towards an accurate understanding of labour markets and analyzing alternative policy proposals.
Texte suppl.
'Labor markets have been at the heart of development economics ever since Arthur Lewis’ seminal work. This collection of fine articles by leading academics and policy makers helps bring the latest research in the role of labor markets in development to readers in an accessible form.' Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Virginia Tech, USA)
