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The formal sector wage premium and firm size for self-employed workers

Bargain, Olivier ; Badaoui, Eliane ; Kwenda, Prudence ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)

We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while ...
The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier ; Kwenda, Prudence (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-05)

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to de…fine informality in a relatively comparable fashion ...
The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Bargain, Olivier ; Kwenda, Prudence (University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-06)

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion ...
Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier ; Kwenda, Prudence (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-01)

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap ...
Is there an informal employment wage penalty? Evidence from South Africa

Walsh, Frank ; Badaoui, Eliane ; Strobl, Eric (University of Chicago Press, 2008-04)

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the ...