This paper investigates the role of risk-aversion in the allocation of workers between formal and informal jobs in Ghana. In the model I propose risk-averse workers can opt between the free-entry informal sector and queuing for formal occupations. Conditional on identifying the riskier option, the model yields testable implications on the relationship between risk-preferences and workers’ alloc...

Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer? In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than comparable white males. Using ...

Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined contribution (NDC) scheme. As the new contribution rate is fixed a...

Data from 76 experimental welfare-to-work programs conducted in the United States between 1983 and 1998 are used to investigate whether the impacts of such programs on employment had been improving over time and whether specific program features influencing such changes can be identified. Over the period, an increasing percentage of control group members received services similar to those offer...

This paper investigates the current important issue in Taiwan that the impact of foreign workers on the rising unemployment rate by constructing a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium model. The results show that foreign workers rob jobs from the local unskilled labor and raise the unemployment rates during the past decade. However, extending the time frame to a longer term, an increasing ...

Migration is a bigger option for earning and livelihood in Odisha either push factors or pull factors, which people move to other states search of work better wages. But COVID-19 emerged as crippling blow huge reverse migration being noticed the state. So study tried investigate labour supply employment opportunity rural areas due COVID-19-led examine impact on status, income profile returned m...

En Belgique, nombreux sont ceux qui ont été confrontés au télétravail intensif suite à la crise de Covid-19. À partir l’analyse données individuelles l’Enquête sur les Forces Travail, notre recherche s’est attachée approfondir connaissances propension avant cette crise, en Belgique et Bruxelles. Pour ce faire, nous avons é...