2012
DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2012.724546
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The heterogeneity of informal employment and segmentation in the Turkish labour market

Abstract: International audienceThis paper aims at investigating the heterogeneity of informal employment on the Turkish labour market. To circumvent the constraints imposed by the traditional parametric methods, finite mixture models are estimated in order to identify the optimal number of segments within the informal employment and their respective returns to individual characteristics. In particular, it sheds light on the potential voluntary nature of informal employment by comparing the estimated probabilities of se… Show more

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“…Yet, some of the features that are used to define lower and upper ties of informal work, such as self-employment, do not capture the heterogeneity accurately in the Turkish context. For example, informal self-employment doesn't have a statistically significant impact on wages along the distribution and a very significant majority of informal employees both salaried and self-employed would be better paid if they are in the formal sector (Tansel and Acar, 2016;Ben Salem and Bensidoun, 2012). Besides, in Turkey, transition rates are quite low and employees are stuck with precarious jobs throughout their career without any prospects of moving to well-paid and secure jobs (Tansel and Acar 2017).…”
Section: Review Of Informal Employment and Its Evolution In Turkeymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Yet, some of the features that are used to define lower and upper ties of informal work, such as self-employment, do not capture the heterogeneity accurately in the Turkish context. For example, informal self-employment doesn't have a statistically significant impact on wages along the distribution and a very significant majority of informal employees both salaried and self-employed would be better paid if they are in the formal sector (Tansel and Acar, 2016;Ben Salem and Bensidoun, 2012). Besides, in Turkey, transition rates are quite low and employees are stuck with precarious jobs throughout their career without any prospects of moving to well-paid and secure jobs (Tansel and Acar 2017).…”
Section: Review Of Informal Employment and Its Evolution In Turkeymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This paper uses two representative Household Budget Surveys (HBS) conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) and has been previously used by several studies on the Turkish labour market (e.g. Cudeville and Gurbuzer, 2007;Ben Salem and Bensidoun, 2012). HBS covers all settlements in Turkey and is specially designed to provide information on income and expenditure of the households.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La fonction de densité globale du revenu est un mélange de deux sous-fonctions, l'une pour les travailleurs formels et l'autre pour les travailleurs informels (lui-même souvent subdivisés en deux sous-segments selon l'idée de Perry et al (2007) et Günther et Launov (2012)). En déterminant ces sous-groupes, il est alors possible d'étudier distinctement l'effet de certains facteurs sociodémographiques sur le revenu des travailleurs informels et formels (Salem et Bensidoun, 2012).…”
Section: Les Modèles De Mélange Finiunclassified
“…Les méthodes de classification hiérarchiques ou non-hiérarchiques représentent encore aujourd'hui les instruments les plus utilisés en sciences sociales pour l'indentification de groupes homogènes (Wedel et al, 2000, Wedel et Kamakura, 2000. Pourtant, face à l'éclatement des réalités et des pratiques sociales qui nécessite une démonstration rigoureuse d'une potentielle hétérogénéité, ces outils apparaissent insuffisants pour définir statistiquement le nombre ''optimal'' de groupes d'individus qui peuvent composer un même ensemble et estimer des effets différenciés (Salem et Bensidoun, 2012). En l'occurrence, le nombre de regroupements va être défini ex ante et sera intimement lié à la méthode de découpage retenue (en particulier pour les procédures supervisées).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
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