Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Gong, Xiaodong; Soest, Arthur van; Villagomez, Elizabeth

doi:10.2139/ssrn.252019

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“…f Such cross-sectional wage regressions are biased when workers' unobserved characteristics affect both their occupational choice and wages. For example, several studies find workers transitioning from the formal sector into the informal sector after spending several years accumulating experience and knowledge in the formal sector (Gong, van Soest, and Villagomez 2004;). Hence, studies that rely on panel data to control for time-invariant unobserved worker characteristics find smaller informal-formal wage differentials.…”

Section: Box 41 Informality and Wage Inequality (Continued)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long Shadow of Informality: Challenges and Policies

Ohnsorge¹,

Yu²

2022

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By definition, the informal economy is hard to study, especially in developing countries. This excellent book uses state-of-the-art methodologies and recently available data to measure and analyze informality in advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies. In particular, it explores the business cycles in the informal sector in 160 countries over the past 30 years; the study is the first one to show that cycles in the formal economy cause those in the informal economy. Contrary to the widespread stereotype that the informal sector is a buffer that helps to mitigate recessions in the formal sector, the informal sector's output moves in sync with the formal one, and informal employment does not increase during recessions. This book also produces the first analysis of the role of informality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Informal economic activity is concentrated in labor-intensive service sectors and thus is especially vulnerable to social distancing and lockdowns. A rigorous, relevant, and highly timely must-read for development scholars and policy makers.

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Section: Box 41 Informality and Wage Inequality (Continued)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long Shadow of Informality: Challenges and Policies

Ohnsorge¹,

Yu²

2022

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“…This study attempts to analyze how the mobility between labor markets varies between genders through analysis of the entire South Korean labor market including the unemployed and non-economically active populations. The study also investigates the gender gaps in employment and working conditions under the stratified labor market (Several attempts have been made to model labor mobility using transition matrices constructed from probabilities of actual movements by the same individuals across distinct labor market states [12][13][14][15][16]). Prior studies have focused on the analysis of gender gaps in working conditions and employment or gaps in the working conditions of workers, rather than gender gaps under the stratified structure of the labor market.…”

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Persistence of the Gender Gap and Low Employment of Female Workers in a Stratified Labor Market: Evidence from South Korea

Cho

Lee²

2015

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The gender gap in working conditions has barely improved in South Korea where various measures for gender equality have been in place for a relatively long time. Furthermore, the female employment rate is also the lowest in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. This study will evaluate the stratified structure of the labor market to identify the causes and will analyze changes in the gender employment distribution and mobility. This study conducted an empirical analysis of gender distribution and labor mobility in the South Korean labor market, utilizing long-term data (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) from the supplementary survey by employment type on the Economically Active Population of the Korea National Statistical Office. From the analysis, women showed a relatively smaller increase than men in the primary labor market, classified as the large and standard employment market, in 2014 compared with 2005, but showed a relatively greater increase than men in the secondary labor market, comprising the small-medium and non-standard employment market. Thus, gender skewness in employment distribution was greater in the stratified labor market. On the other hand, the non-economically active population more than doubled for women compared to men. From the analysis of labor mobility by gender, a higher proportion of women were employed in the peripheral labor market than in the core labor market and women were also more likely to be employed in the relatively weak peripheral labor market. These results imply that dichotomous

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“…Many methods exist for fitting a multinomial logit model with random effects, such as simulated maximum likelihood (Gong et al, 2004), quadrature (Hartzel et al, 2001;Hedeker, 2003), multinomial-Poisson transformation (Lee et al, 2017), and moment-based estimation (Perry, 2017), among others. Computational strategies for the MVP model, on the other hand, are less well studied.…”

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Efficient Data Augmentation for Multivariate Probit Models with Panel Data: An Application to General Practitioner Decision Making about Contraceptives

Chin

Gunawan

Fiebig

et al. 2020

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics

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Summary The paper considers the problem of estimating a multivariate probit model in a panel data setting with emphasis on sampling a high dimensional correlation matrix and improving the overall efficiency of the data augmentation approach. We reparameterize the correlation matrix in a principled way and then carry out efficient Bayesian inference by using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling. We also propose a novel antithetic variable method to generate samples from the posterior distribution of the random effects and regression coefficients, resulting in significant gains in efficiency. We apply the methodology by analysing stated preference data obtained from Australian general practitioners evaluating alternative contraceptive products. Our analysis suggests that the joint probability of discussing combinations of contraceptive products with a patient shows medical practice variation among the general practitioners, which indicates some resistance even to discuss these products, let alone to recommend them.

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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

The Long Shadow of Informality: Challenges and Policies

The Long Shadow of Informality: Challenges and Policies

Persistence of the Gender Gap and Low Employment of Female Workers in a Stratified Labor Market: Evidence from South Korea

Efficient Data Augmentation for Multivariate Probit Models with Panel Data: An Application to General Practitioner Decision Making about Contraceptives

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