全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP16117 Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP16117
	DP16117 Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil
	Niklas Engbom; Gustavo Gonzaga; Christian Moser; Roberta Olivieri
发表日期	2022-01-13
出版年	2022
语种	英语
摘要	Using rich administrative and household survey data spanning 34 years from 1985 to 2018, we document a series of new facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid-1990s, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil’s formal sector. Higher-order moments of the distribution of earnings changes show cyclical movements in Brazil that are similar to those in developed countries like the US. Relative to the formal sector, the informal sector is associated with a significant earnings penalty and higher earnings volatility for identical workers. Earnings changes of workers who switch from formal to informal (from informal to formal) employment are relatively negative (positive) and large in magnitude, dispersed, negatively (positively) skewed, and less leptokurtic. Our results suggest that informal employment is an imperfect insurance mechanism.
主题	Development Economics ; Labour Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth
关键词	Earnings inequality Earnings dynamics Higher-order moments Informality
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp16117-2
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545823
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Niklas Engbom,Gustavo Gonzaga,Christian Moser,et al. DP16117 Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil. 2022.