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| Title: | | Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets  |
| Authors: | | Günther, Isabel Launov, Andrey |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Würzburg economic papers 72 |
| Abstract: | | It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model which allows for a heterogeneous informal sector with unobserved individual a?liation and which takes into account selection bias induced by the employment decision of individ- uals. Our test results for the urban labor market in Cte d'Ivoire indeed show existence of both competitive and segmented employment in the informal sector. |
| Subjects: | | developing economy informal labor market segmentation comparative advantage selection bias latent structure finite mixture models |
| JEL: | | O17 J42 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | W.E.P. - Würzburg Economic Papers, Lst. f. VWL, Geld u. internat. Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Universität Würzburg
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