"Thanks also Sally for the cite to the forthcoming ILO publication... It does seem useful to draw a distinction between regulations that protect workers from exploitation and ones that put barriers..."

24 mei 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

"Thank you, Chike, Fernanda and others. I'm learning a lot here and will be looking into your citations and incorporating your insights into my and Prof. Vitiello's work!"

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""The conventional wisdom is that immigrants steal jobs from nationals. However, is this true?" Most of my knowledge on this topic concerns the U.S. but I recently discovered a paper by Sari..."

9 mei 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

"Steve Miller asks, "Do regulations kill jobs or create them? Are they the cause of or solution to informality?" I think our public policy -- particularly immigration policy -- is so ambivalent on..."

8 mei 2012 on Job creation, informal economy and regulatory environment

"This picture gets even bleaker if one factors in two other trends: 1) the particularly difficult plight of the long-term unemployed (42% of the unemployed in the U.S. today have been unemployed for..."

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