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Dynastic measures of intergenerational mobility
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2023
types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … educational mobility was regressive, which considerably reduced the progressivity of mobility in terms of potential earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499450
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Top earners and earnings inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Ecuadorian administrative data
Bargain, Olivier; Carrillo-Maldonado, Paul; Jara, H. Xavier - 2023
their monthly earnings during the pandemic compared to those of the rest of the registered workforce. Our analysis shows …-pandemic earnings distribution. Conditional on being in registered employment, mean earnings also dropped in the second quarter of 2020 … across all earning groups (top and non-top). By the end of 2021, earnings had recovered for non-top earners and the top 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549884
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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879326
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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/10003870836
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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870839
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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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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal … significant earnings premium that may compensate the benefits obtained in formal jobs. In the lower end of the earnings … distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936721
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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/10009724405
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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725007
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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal … significant earnings premium that may compensate the benefits obtained in formal jobs. In the lower end of the earnings … distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725463