Microeconometric decompositions of aggregate variables: an application to labor informality in Argentina
This paper illustrates the use of microeconometric decomposition techniques to characterize changes in aggregate variables. In particular, I study the effect of changes in the employment structure on the labor informality rate for salaried workers in the Greater Buenos Aires area. To that aim I comp...
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| Formato: | Objeto de conferencia |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2001
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170265 |
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| Sumario: | This paper illustrates the use of microeconometric decomposition techniques to characterize changes in aggregate variables. In particular, I study the effect of changes in the employment structure on the labor informality rate for salaried workers in the Greater Buenos Aires area. To that aim I compute the difference between the informality rate at moment t´ and the rate that results from combining the population at moment t with the parameters estimated at moment t´ that link observable individual characteristics to the informality decision. The paper concludes that the deep change of the employment structure in Argentina during the 1980s and the 1990s has had a significant but minor effect on the labor informality rate. |
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