IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ake/repba1/y2014i13p67-107.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Labor informality and transitions to formality in Argentina, 2003- 2012

Author

Listed:
  • Di Capua, Laura

    (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadística, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas)

  • Pellegrini, José Luis

    (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Estadística, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas)

Abstract

This paper takes an empirical approach to the Argentine labor market dynamics for the period 2003-2012, focusing on informal employment. It attempts to determine whether there is dependency between the occupational status of people in a given moment and their future probability of accessing formal employment. It was found that those previously in informal jobs are less likely than formal workers, and as likely as unemployed individuals, to access formal jobs. Also, increases in the unemployment rate decrease overall odds of entering labor market as a formal employee.

Suggested Citation

  • Di Capua, Laura & Pellegrini, José Luis, 2014. "Labor informality and transitions to formality in Argentina, 2003- 2012," Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas., issue 13, pages 67-107, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ake:repba1:y:2014:i:13:p:67-107
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ojs.econ.uba.ar/index.php/REPBA/article/view/783/1429
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Labor informality; transitions to formality; Argentina;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ake:repba1:y:2014:i:13:p:67-107. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: IIEP UBA-CONICET (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feubaar.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.