Inequality and occupational change in times of Revolution: The Tunisian perspective

Mohamed Marouani and Phuong Le Minh ()
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Phuong Le Minh: UMR Développement et Sociétés, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and IRD ; The Centre for Analysis and Forecast, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

No DT/2021/06, Working Papers from DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the evolution of employment and earnings distributions before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on the impact of public wage and employment policy changes. A recentered-influence function (RIF) decomposition is performed to decompose the change in earnings in wage structure and composition effects and to assess the contribution of various determinants of inequality. We find that earnings inequality decreases significantly during the period of investigation in Tunisia, mainly due to the decreases in public–private wage gap and sector wage gap on the demand side and the decreasing education premia on the supply side. The increase in marginal returns to low wage and average routine-task intensity jobs, the falling return to experience, and the decreasing regional wage gap were partly responsible for the decline in overall earnings inequality.

Keywords: wage inequality; Revolution; occupational change; education premium; public wage policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J23 J24 J32 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64 pages
Date: 2021-11
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Working Paper: Inequality and occupational change in times of Revolution: The Tunisian perspective (2022)
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