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This Volume Looks At The Links Between The Formal And Informal Labor Market In Developing And Transition Economies, Working Towards An Accurate Understanding Of Labour Markets And Analysing Alternative Policy Proposals. 1. Overview / Ravi Kanbur And Jan Svejnar -- Part I: Employment, Poverty, And Labor Market Dynamics -- 2. Does Employment Generation Really Matter For Poverty Reduction? / Catalina Gutierrez, Pierella Paci, Carlo Orecchia, And Pieter Serneels -- 3. Employment Elasticity In Organized Manufacturing In India / Dipak Mazumdar And Sandip Sarkar -- 4. Wage Determination And Wage Inequality Inside A Russian Firm In Late Transition: Evidence From Personnel Data, 1997-2002 / Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann, And Mark E. Schaffer -- 5. Education And Youth Unemployment In South Africa / David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, And Cecil Mlatsheni -- 6. Analysis Of Attrition Patterns In The Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000-2002 / Insan Tunali -- Part 11: Formality, Informality, And Labor Market Regulation -- 7. Monopsonistic Competition In Formal And Informal Labor Markets / Ted To -- 8. Entrepreneurial Entry In A Developing Economy / John Bennett And Saul Estrin --^ 9. Multiple-job-holding In Tanzania / Theis Theisen -- 10. Regulation Of Entry, Informality, And Policy Complementarities / Mariano Bosch -- 11. Can Social Programs Reduce Productivity And Growth? A Hypothesis For Mexico / Santiago Levy -- 12. Minimum Wages In Kenya / Mabel Andalon And Carmen Pages -- 13. Labor Market Flexibility: Insurance Versus Efficiency And The Indian Experience / Errol D'souza 14. Labor Productivity Growth, Informal Wage, And Capital Mobility: A General Equilibrium Analysis / Sugata Marji And Saibal Kar -- Part Iii: Trade And Labor -- 15. Trade And Labor Standards: New Empirical Evidence / Yiagadeesen Samy And Vivek H. Dehejia -- 16. Do Foreign-owned Firms Pay More? Evidence From The Indonesian Manufacturing Sector / Ann E. Harrison And Jason Scorse -- 17. Gender Inequality In The Labor Market During Economic Transition: Changes In India's Manufacturing Sector / Nidhiya Menon And Yana Van Der Meulen Rodgers -- Part Iv: Human Capital, Productivity, And Gender --^ 18. Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages, And Endogenous Employment Status In Ghana / Niels-ilugo Blunch -- 19. Wage Convergence And Inequality After Unification: (east) Germany In Transition / Johannes Gernandt And Friedhelm Pfeiffer -- 20. Child Work And Schooling Costs In Rural Northern India / Gautam Hazarika And Arjun Singh Bedi -- 21. Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors, Or Sticky Doors? A Quantile Regression Approach To Exploring Gender Wage Gaps In Sri Lanka / Dileni Gunewardena, Darshi Abeyrathna, Amalie Ellagala, Kamani Rajakaruna, And Shiobana Rajendran -- 22. Skills, Training, And Enterprise Performance: Survey Evidence From Transition Countries In Central And Eastern Europe / Joe Emanuele Colombano And Libor Krkoska -- 23. Exploring Gender Wage Discrimination In South Africa, 1995-2004: A Quantile Regression Approach / Miracle Ntuli -- 24. The Determinants Of Female Labor Supply In Belarus / Francesco Pastore And Alina Verashchagina --^ 25. Islands Through The Glass Ceiling? Evidence Of Gender Wage Gaps In Madagascar And Mauritius / Christophe J. Nordman And Francois-charles Wolff Edited By Ravi Kanbur And Jan Svejnar. Revisions Of Papers Presented At The Conference Held In Ann Arbor, Mich. In May 2007. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.