Education as a key to reduce spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labour markets

Abstract

This paper assesses the effects of the individual educational capital on their odds to belong to the formal or informal labour market in Argentina. Using recent microdata that studies more than 11,000 workers we estimate a probit model that relates the probability of belonging to the formal or informal labour market depending on his/her years of schooling and other control variables. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the significant effect of making effective the legal minimum schooling years in order to reduce the informality rate and show that education policies could be used as a way of reducing regional inequalities in Argentina.

Human resources for regional development in Ukraine: A roadmap for forecasting and determining a regional training request

“…For instance, Kupets (2016) examines changes in the incidence of education-job mismatches in Ukraine over 10 years and the determinants of overeducation and undereducation at the regional level. Some specific case studies consider the ongoing restructuring of labor markets, implying significant changes in occupational structures and skill requirements in Sweden (Lindskog, 2003); occupational change and the implications for the future German labor market (Maier, 2005); the mismatch between qualification requirements and the level of vocational training and formal qualifications being acquired by individuals in the Czech Republic (Wilson, 2008); and the role of education policy in reducing spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labor markets (Quiroga-Martínez & Fernández-Vázquez, 2021). These studies confirm the extreme importance of the issue of addressing quantitative and qualitative mismatches in the market of educational services, particularly in volumes and structure of training.…”