Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190121 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/72
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Using matched worker-firm data from three waves of the Viet Nam Small and Medium Enterprises data, we examine whether workers are compensated with higher wages for working in vulnerable jobs and unfavourable working conditions. Wage equations indicate that there are no clear compensating mechanisms for working in poor conditions, for having an informal contract, and for having few financial benefits. Quantile regressions show that workers in the upper tail of the wage distribution are more likely to be penalized for working in adverse conditions. Employees recruited through official hiring channels with an informal contract earn less than employees hired through social networks. Upon estimating mean decompositions of wage gaps based on working conditions, we find that the gap is almost entirely explained by the conjunction of worker, job and firm characteristics in 2015, in contrast to the previous survey year of 2013.
Subjects: 
compensating differentials
vulnerability
working conditions
hiring channels
SME
Viet Nam
JEL: 
C21
J31
J81
O53
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-514-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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