Labour Markets in the Developing World
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- Was Adam Smith Right About Watches?
- Why Do People Make Risky Investments?
- Can Participating in a Survey Change Saving Behaviour?
- Solar Power Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine
- Labour Markets in the Developing World
- Childhood Psychological Distress and Youth Unemployment
- Journal of Political Economy Publishes Orla Doyle's Paper
- P. Devereux paper in THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
- Why do polarizing political ideologies form?
- Gender differences in college applications: Aspiration and risk management
- Does it pay off to be a big fish in a small pond?
- Worker-plant matching and ownership change
- Soccer Clubs and Diminishing Returns: The Case of Paris Saint-Germain
- Health Screening for Emerging and Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor
- Private Health Insurance in Ireland: Trends and Determinants
- Financial Contagion and the Wealth Effect: An Experimental Study
- Productivity, non-compliance and the minimum wage
- The Economy of Ireland: Policy Making in a Global Context
- Bounded Rationality and Categorization
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Labour Markets in the Developing World
What determines what types of firms work in the informal sector in developing countries? In an article published in The Journal of Development Economics, UCD Economist Frank Walsh and co-authors Eliane El Badaoui and Eric Strobl develop a model explaining why many small unproductive firms will choose to work in low wage unregulated sectors which are prevalent in developing countries.