Artikel

Informal unemployment and education

This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities and educational choice. We show that underground activities reduce educational attainments if informal employment opportunities mainly are available for low-educated workers. A more zealous enforcement policy will in this case improve educational incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases. Characterizing the optimal enforcement policies, we find that relatively more audits should be targeted towards the sector employing low-educated workers; elsewise, a too low stock of educated workers is materialized.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: IZA Journal of Labor Economics ; ISSN: 2193-8997 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 8 ; Pages: 1-36 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Analysis of Education
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Thema
Tax evasion
The informal sector
Education
Matching
Unemployment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kolm, Ann-Sofie
Larsen, Birthe
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.1186/s40172-016-0048-6
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Kolm, Ann-Sofie
  • Larsen, Birthe
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2016

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