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How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector? : evidence for South Africa using administrative data
Cassim, Aalia; Casale, Daniela - 2018
Public debate on the temporary employment services, or labour broker, sector in South Africa has focused on temporary workers' wages and benefits. Empirical research is limited: temporary employment services cannot be accurately identified in recent labour force surveys. In 2015, South Africa...
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Re-examining the Brazilian South-Northeast labour income gap : a decomposition approach
Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Silveira Neto, Raul da Mota - 2021
The purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power. We use a unique and recent regional purchasing power index to adjust nominal values...
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Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India
Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika; Sen, Kunal - 2023
Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers in India in contributing to the observed decline....
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Puzzle me this? : the Vietnamese reverse gender education gap
Mergoupis, Thanos; Phan, Van; Sessions, John G. - 2018
identify household and commune characteristics and emphasize how the effects of these characteristics vary by gender. The … gender differences we find suggest that unequal treatment of girls within their households has a negative impact on their … educational attainment and that in the absence of such unequal treatment the reverse gender gap would be even larger. We find …
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Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon : an unconditional quantile regression analysis
Wirba, Ebenezer Lemven; Akem, Fiennasah Annif’; Baye, … - 2021
essentially among wage earners. Returns to experience mitigate the gender earnings gap at the mean, and 10th and 50th percentiles …
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Progress and stagnation in the livelihood of informal workers in an emerging economy : long-term evidence from Indonesia
Rizky, Mayang; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - 2020
We use long-spanning individual longitudinal data to examine the long-term labour market outcomes of low-tier informal workers. We investigate their characteristics, calculate the extent of switching, and identify the characteristics of those who have switched. Finally, we estimate the earnings...
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Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from Indonesia
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2021
mobility. We suggest an application for Indonesia. Exploiting IFLS data to match parents observed in 1993 to their children in …
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The differential impact of economic crisis on men and women, and its connection to intrahousehold bargaining
Dong, Sarah Xue - 2017
This paper discusses whether the Asian financial crisis affected men and women differently in Indonesia by estimating …
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Private returns to education for wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda
Kavuma, Susan Namirembe; Morrissey, Oliver; Upward, Richard - 2015
The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and heterogeneous private returns to...
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A macro-micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin America
Arora, Diksha; Braunstein, Elissa; Seguino, Stephanie - 2021
Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions …, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change … the achievement of greater gender equality can be offset by appropriately targeted government policies. …
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