Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina

Autores
Alzúa, María Laura
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
documento de trabajo
Estado
versión enviada
Descripción
Empirical studies attempting at testing dualism in developing countries often rely on an ex-ante definition of the primary and the secondary sector. Many times this methodology causes biases in the estimation due to sample selection problems. Also, such definitions may be arbitrary sometimes. We use twenty seven years of Household Data in order to test for the existence dual labor markets in Argentina. We estimated an endogenous switching model with unknown regime without defining ex-ante sector attachment. We find evidence of dualism for both periods analyzed. However, the differences between the two sectors have significantly changed over time. Finally, our estimations also corroborate the fact that using the usual ex-ante definition of sector attachment may not be adequate for testing dualism.
Trabajo a publicarse en Desarrollo y Sociedad, número especial sobre informalidad laboral en América Latina. Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, Bogotá, Colombia.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
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acceso abierto
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
spellingShingle Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
Alzúa, María Laura
Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
title_short Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_full Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_fullStr Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_sort Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alzúa, María Laura
author Alzúa, María Laura
author_facet Alzúa, María Laura
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
topic Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Empirical studies attempting at testing dualism in developing countries often rely on an ex-ante definition of the primary and the secondary sector. Many times this methodology causes biases in the estimation due to sample selection problems. Also, such definitions may be arbitrary sometimes. We use twenty seven years of Household Data in order to test for the existence dual labor markets in Argentina. We estimated an endogenous switching model with unknown regime without defining ex-ante sector attachment. We find evidence of dualism for both periods analyzed. However, the differences between the two sectors have significantly changed over time. Finally, our estimations also corroborate the fact that using the usual ex-ante definition of sector attachment may not be adequate for testing dualism.
Trabajo a publicarse en <i>Desarrollo y Sociedad</i>, número especial sobre informalidad laboral en América Latina. Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, Bogotá, Colombia.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description Empirical studies attempting at testing dualism in developing countries often rely on an ex-ante definition of the primary and the secondary sector. Many times this methodology causes biases in the estimation due to sample selection problems. Also, such definitions may be arbitrary sometimes. We use twenty seven years of Household Data in order to test for the existence dual labor markets in Argentina. We estimated an endogenous switching model with unknown regime without defining ex-ante sector attachment. We find evidence of dualism for both periods analyzed. However, the differences between the two sectors have significantly changed over time. Finally, our estimations also corroborate the fact that using the usual ex-ante definition of sector attachment may not be adequate for testing dualism.
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