This dissertation is composed of three distinct chapters, all of which detect and examine the influences of government policy on labor markets. Chapter 1. While many researchers have sought to estimate government wage differentials, most of them ignore the issues of unobserved h…
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This dissertation studies economic growth, directly and indirectly, from three different perspectives: labor markets, financial markets, and social institutions. The issues addressed are the effect on labor markets of implementing an unemployment insurance system when eligibilit…
The greatest productive asset for most people in the world is their own labor. Many poor people employ their labor in subsistence agriculture or in informal jobs. A direct route to lift these people out of poverty is to move them into formal sector jobs which provide higher wage…
The purpose of this study is threefold as represented by its three separate parts. In the first part, it highlights major characteristics of labor markets and institutions in Africa. In the second, it investigates effects of these labor market institutions in the process of wage…
This dissertation studies a labor market where heterogeneous workers climb a job ladder with informal and formal rungs. In this environment, the incidence of informal jobs in a worker's job ladder is a function of her skill level and the economy's history of aggregate states. I …
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a theoretical foundation for the existence of a non-homogenous external labor market. It is conducted in an effort to further our understanding of an increasingly diverse and important workforce. Once the concept of a segmented mark…