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The impact of centralized bargaining on spillovers and the wage structure in monopsonistic labour markets

Bassier, Ihsaan - 2021

How does centralized bargaining affect the broader wage structure? And what does this tell us about the (non-)competitive dynamics of such labour markets? I study large contracted wage increases negotiated by centralized bargaining councils in South Africa, using matched employer- employee tax...

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Rent sharing, wage floors, and development

Budlender, Joshua; Bassier, Ihsaan - 2023

Faced with more favourable demand conditions, many firms raise wages. However, we show that firms with labour market power, lower productivity, and binding wage floors will absorb these positive revenue productivity shocks as excess profits instead of increasing wages or employment. Our...

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The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South Africa

Bassier, Ihsaan - 2019

of monopsony fail to use firm-level wage variation. I address this by using the estimated firm wage premia to estimate … how wages are related to rent-sharing and monopsony power. I find that the average worker switching from a firm in the 25 … distribution of monopsony, as measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index in industry-by-local labour market hires, decreases wages …

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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? Insider-outsider theory revisited

Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019

Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...

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Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

Gradín Lago, Carlos Manuel - 2017

This paper investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of occupations after apartheid in South Africa. Empirical analysis, using census microdata and Labour Force Surveys, does not provide strong evidence of sustained or significant desegregation. Occupations remain...

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Segregation of women into low-paying occupations in the United States

Gradín, Carlos - 2017

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i.e. when women or men are predominantly segregated into low-paying jobs. For this, we propose to use concentration curves and indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach...

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Material barriers, cultural boundaries: A mixed-methods analysis of gender and labour market segmentation in Bangladesh

Kabeer, Naila; Huq, Lopita; Rahaman, Muhammad Mahabub - 2021

Data on female labour force participation in Bangladesh suggest that, despite the increase in female-intensive employment opportunities through microfinance, export garment manufacturing, and community-based services, the majority of working women are concentrated in home-based activities. There...

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Female labour supply and informal employment in Ecuador

Jara, H. Xavier; Rattenhuber, Pia - 2022

Low- and middle-income countries face a trade-off between raising tax revenue to strengthen social protection and creating incentives for the population to enter formal employment. However, empirical evidence on labour supply elasticities in the presence of informal employment remains scarce....

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Employer power and employment in developing countries

Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022

The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labour markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labour markets assumption is not valid for...

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Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa

Gradín, Carlos - 2018

In this paper, I show that occupations in South Africa are segregated and stratified not only by race, but also by gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian/Asian but also Coloured) tend to fill higher-paying...

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