Arbeitspapier

Determinants of Transitions across Formal/Informal Sectors in Egypt

Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows across different labor market states. We develop transition probabilities by gender across different labor market states utilizing Markov transition processes. Next we identify the effects of individual, household, job characteristics and location on different mobility patterns by estimating a multinomial logit regression. The results point to the highly static nature of the Egyptian labor market. Government employment and the out of labor force are the most persistent labor market states. Further, only a few of the explanatory variables except high levels of education are found to have predictive power in explaining the transitions from formal wage, informal wage, self-employment, unemployment government employment and out of labor market states.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1502

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Particular Labor Markets: General
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Thema
Labor market dynamics
informality
Markov processes
multinomial logit
Egypt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tansel, Aysit
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)
(wo)
Istanbul
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Tansel, Aysit
  • Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin
  • Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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