Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt? Evidence From Quantile Regression on Panel Data

dc.authorid TANSEL, Aysit/0000-0001-9556-2396
dc.authorid ozdemir, zeynel abidin/0000-0001-8600-0463
dc.authorscopusid 6701391612
dc.authorscopusid 57208547889
dc.authorscopusid 15770313900
dc.authorwosid TANSEL, Aysit/H-8096-2012
dc.contributor.author Tansel, Aysit
dc.contributor.author Keskin, Halil Ibrahim
dc.contributor.author Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T15:38:10Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T15:38:10Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Tansel, Aysit] Middle East Tech Univ, Dept Econ, TR-06800 Ankara, Turkey; [Tansel, Aysit] Inst Study Lab IZA, Bonn, Germany; [Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin] Econ Res Forum ERF, Cairo, Egypt; [Keskin, Halil Ibrahim] Cukurova Univ, Adana, Turkey; [Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin] Atilim Univ, Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description TANSEL, Aysit/0000-0001-9556-2396; ozdemir, zeynel abidin/0000-0001-8600-0463 en_US
dc.description.abstract This is the first study that uses panel data to assess the magnitude of the informal sector wage gap in Egypt. We consider the private sector male wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable and unobservable characteristics with a fixed effect model. We also consider the possibility of nonlinearity in covariate effects and estimate a variant of matching models. We find a persistent informal wage penalty in the face of extensive sensitivity checks. It is smaller when unobserved heterogeneity is taken into account, and unlike many previous studies, there are very few differences across the conditional wage distribution. We also examine the informal wage penalty over time and in different subgroups according to age and education. The informal wage penalty has increased recently over time and is larger for the higher educated and the young. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 7
dc.identifier.doi 10.1007/s00181-019-01651-2
dc.identifier.endpage 2979 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0377-7332
dc.identifier.issn 1435-8921
dc.identifier.issue 6 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85065090900
dc.identifier.startpage 2949 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01651-2
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/3057
dc.identifier.volume 58 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000531425300015
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Physica-verlag Gmbh & Co en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 13
dc.subject Formal and informal wage gap en_US
dc.subject Quantile regression en_US
dc.subject Panel data en_US
dc.subject Egypt en_US
dc.title Is There an Informal Employment Wage Penalty in Egypt? Evidence From Quantile Regression on Panel Data en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 9
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