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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
Nguyen, Huu - 2013
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087864
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The Informal Sector Wage Gap : New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158055
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Informal Versus Formal : A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2016
Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries. While most of the papers on this topic are drawn from (emerging) Latin American, Asian or some African countries, Madagascar represents an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989835
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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 Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872717
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Two stories of wage dynamics in Latin America : different policies, different outcomes
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Carvajal-Osorio, Luis C. - 2018
suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages … to changes in formal sector wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872217
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Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers : Does the Industry Matter?
Stephan, Gesine - 2010
short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139947
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Business taxation and wages : redistribution and asymmetric effects
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - 2017 - This version: July 2017
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting is rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment heterogeneity. Using a large administrative panel data set, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011699190
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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction
Bossler, Mario; Schank, Thorsten - 2020
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178776
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Business taxation and wages : redistribution and asymmetric effects
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars - 2017 - This version: July 2017
Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting is rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment heterogeneity. Using a large administrative panel data set, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736166
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Wage inequality in Germany after the minimum wage introduction
Bossler, Mario; Schank, Thorsten - 2020
While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424962