Employment Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Korea This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives’ economic performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of Korea’s system by which to introduce low-skilled immigrants. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses reveal that the adjustment cost related to the introduct...

Title of dissertation: THE BUSINESS CYCLE CONSEQUENCES OF INFORMAL LABOR MARKETS Alan Finkelstein Shapiro Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor S. Borağan Aruoba Professor John C. Haltiwanger Department of Economics This dissertation explores the connection between the structure of labor markets and business cycle dynamics, with a focus on informality. The first chapter...

This paper compares patterns of hiring and separations in regulated and unregulated labor markets over the last two decades in Brazil, with an eye toward gauging the effects of employment protection on employment adjustment over the business cycle. Since the difference between the sectors is stark and well-defined, the consequences of employment protection on flows through the labor market are ...

— How did family characteristics affect women and men differently in self-employment participation in urban China? Analyses of national data show dual marriage penalties for women. Marketization made married women more vulnerable to lay-offs from state-sector jobs; their likelihood of being pushed into unskilled self-employment surpassed that of any other groups. The revitalized patriarchal fam...

The paper analyses the links between a binding minimum wage and union bargaining. A dual labour market model is developed where the rst sector outcome is characterised by bargaining between unions and rms, while in the second sector rms have to pay a statutory minimum wage. It is shown that a minimum wage increase has negative employment e ects only if the bargaining outcome is described by the...

This paper provides an analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in less developed countries. We analyze the variation of this impact across countries, estimation methods, definition of entry and performance, and the use of control variables. We find that one year of schooling raises enterprise income by an average of 5 per...

India is an agriculture based developing country. Information dissemination to the knowledge intensive agriculture sector is upgraded by mobile-enabled information services and rapid growth of mobile telephony. It bridge the gap between the availability of agricultural input and delivery of agricultural outputs and agriculture infrastructure. Mobile computing, cloud computing, machine learning ...

UNLABELLED Many OECD countries are currently experiencing economic crisis and introducing counter-measures with unknown effects. To learn from previous experience, we explored whether there were delayed or differential effects of the Swedish recession in the 1990s and the government's response to it for people with limiting longstanding illness or disability (LLSI) from different socioeconomic ...

In the world today, sustainable development has become a major concern at both national and international levels. There is broad realization that the wasteful, inequitable development patterns of the past, which have led to developments that are economically, socially and ecologically unsustainable, cannot continue. The debate today is no longer about choosing between economic and social develo...