Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina

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...

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Autor principal: Alzúa, María Laura
Formato: Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2008
Materias:
Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3632
http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/download.php?file=archivos_upload/doc_cedlas73.pdf
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topic Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
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economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
Alzúa, María Laura
Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
topic_facet Economía
economía del trabajo
Argentina
trabajo
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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title Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_short Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_full Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
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title_full_unstemmed Are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for Argentina
title_sort are informal workers secondary workers?: evidence for argentina
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