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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 1502
- Klassifikation
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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
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Labor market dynamics
informality
Markov processes
multinomial logit
Egypt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Tansel, Aysit
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)
- (wo)
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Istanbul
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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