Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries

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Explaining the MENA paradox: Rising educational attainment yet stagnant female labor force participation

“…Our results show that the dramatic slowdown in the hiring of educated women (and men) by the public sector has not been counterbalanced by a commensurate increase in employment opportunities in the formal private sector. This is in line with the theoretical findings of Yassin and Langot (2018). Neither informal private employment nor non-wage employment has offered viable options for educated women in MENA, leaving unemployment and nonparticipation as the remaining options.…”

“…6 The main change on the demand side, which is common to most countries in the region, is the substantial slowdown in public sector hiring. The public sector has been the main source of employment for educated workers, especially educated women, in MENA for a long time (Assaad 2014;Yassin and Langot 2018). Our results show that the dramatic slowdown in the hiring of educated women (and men) by the public sector has not been counterbalanced by a commensurate increase in employment opportunities in the formal private sector.…”

Discrimination in a search and matching model with self-employment

“…This also ensures that both productivity cut-offs exist. The real interest rate and the cost of creating vacancies are set at 0.09 and 0.3 following similar work by Yassin and Langot (2018) on informality in Egypt. The bargaining parameter γ is set at 0.5: given that this equals the matching elasticity, the Hosios condition is satisfied.…”

El sector informal en la Ciudad de México. Caso de estudio de la Delegación Iztapalapa

“…En algunos casos el sector informal se utiliza como medio de supervivencia (Brambila y Cazzavillan, 2009) en donde los salarios son bajos y se trabaja en condiciones precarias (Yassin y Langot, 2018). En otras ocasiones, se utiliza como una fuente complementaria de ingresos y para aumentar la riqueza (Wallace y Latcheva, 2006).…”