IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ces/ceswps/_6337.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Labour Market Participation in Brazil: A Discrete Game Approach

Author

Listed:
  • Marcelo Resende
  • Vicente Cardoso

Abstract

The paper aims to investigate the labour market participation of couples in Brazil in 2013. The observed endogenous variables portraying participation are assumed to be the outcome of a static discrete game between the partners. Different solution concepts are considered (Nash, Stackelberg and imposed Pareto optimality), and the estimations are implemented for rural and urban areas. The evidence, in comparison with previous evidence for more developed and homogeneous countries, displays qualitative similarities in terms of own wage, cross wage and age effects and a stronger inhibiting role of the number of small children in the case of the female partner. In particular, cross-wage effects also indicated gender asymmetry. Additionally, one identifies a more limited role of schooling on labour market participation in rural areas and gender contrasts in terms of the number of persons in the household that have a positive significant effect only for male partners.

Suggested Citation

  • Marcelo Resende & Vicente Cardoso, 2017. "Labour Market Participation in Brazil: A Discrete Game Approach," CESifo Working Paper Series 6337, CESifo.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_6337
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp6337.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    labour market participation; discrete game; Brazil;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    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:ces:ceswps:_6337. 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: Klaus Wohlrabe (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cesifde.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.