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▼a 9780438254862 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)AAI10844650 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)grad.msu:16224 |
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▼d 248032 |
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▼a Bertoldi, Pablo Adrian Garlati. |
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▼a Essays on Informal Labor Markets in Developing Countries. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b Michigan State University.,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a 86 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Todd Elder. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018. |
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▼a This paper studies the informal labor markets of Colombia and Paraguay. Colombia has been found to show a significant reduction in informal employment due to the reduction in payroll taxes. Conversely, Paraguay shows highly isolated informal/for |
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▼a Chapter 1 evaluates how the drastic reduction in payroll taxes in 2012 reduced informali-ty in Colombia. By the end of 2012 the Colombian government implemented a tax reform that, among other things, substantially reduced payroll taxes. I evalua |
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▼a Theoretically, I develop a labor market model incorporating the changes introduced by the reform. As the reduction in payroll taxes was accompanied by a change in social trans-fers' funding, which led to uncertain changes in profits and social b |
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▼a Empirically, I obtain difference-in-difference (DID) estimates from two household sur-veys---one composed by many repeated cross sections across many years and the other a much shorter panel dataset. Estimates from the repeated cross sections da |
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▼a Chapter 2 characterizes informal-formal employment transitions in Paraguay. Results in-dicate that some factors, such as education and firms size, improve workers' movement be-tween informal and formal employment, and wage gains from moving into |
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▼a Estimates, based on a survival model, indicate that education and firm size highly in-crease informal-to-formal transitions, especially if workers have stayed informal for a long time. Older women have lower formal-to-informal transitions and, s |
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▼a School code: 0128. |
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▼a Labor economics. |
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▼a Latin American studies. |
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▼a 0550 |
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▼a Michigan State University.
▼b Economics - Doctor of Philosophy. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 79-12A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0128 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T15000002
▼n KERIS |
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▼a 201812
▼f 2019 |
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▼a 관리자 |