Arbeitspapier

Is there an informal employment wage premium? Evidence from Tajikistan

This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal employment wage premium across the whole earnings distribution. This contrast with earlier studies and casts doubt on the recent literature showing that the informal sector is poorly rewarded. It seems to be the case that the informal employment in Tajikistan is the main source of income.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6727

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Thema
formal/informal employment
quantile regression decomposition
Lohnstruktur
Informeller Sektor
Schwarzarbeit
Schätzung
Tadschikistan

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza
Staneva, Anita V.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza
  • Staneva, Anita V.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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