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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872717
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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … small at all levels in Brazil. -- Self-employed ; salary work ; informal sector ; earnings differential ; quantile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936721
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Competition and the racial wage gap : testing Becker's model of employer discrimination
Hirata, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016
According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452761
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Workforce composition, productivity, and labor regulations in a compensating differentials theory of informality
Haanwinckel, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016
We develop a search model of informal labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, intra-firm bargaining with imperfect substitutability across types of workers, and a comprehensive set of labor regulations, including minimum wage. Stylized facts associated with the informal sector, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476551
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Are wage and employment effects robust to alternative minimum wage variables?
Lemos, Sara (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001978450
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Differences in on-the-job learning across firms
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Saltiel, Fernando - 2021
experience, using administrative datasets from Brazil and Italy. We categorize firms into discrete "classes" using a clustering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581475
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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419315
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Assortative matching or exclusionary hiring? : the impact of firm policies on racial wage differences in Brazil
Gerard, François; Lagos, Lorenzo; Severnini, Edson R.; … - 2018
disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites … allocative costs of race-based preferences may be relatively large in Brazil. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946816
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Who benefits from tuition-free, top-quality universities? : evidence from Brazil
Duryea, Suzanne; Ribas, Rafael Pérez; Sampaio, Breno; … - 2023
This paper investigates the long-term impact on earnings of attending a tuition-free, top-quality university in Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286502
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The rise of domestic outsourcing and the evolution of the German wage structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah; Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2015
The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring employees directly. We investigate the impact of this transformation on the wage structure by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296066