 Estimating disguised unemployment in major middle-income countries by means of non-linear input–output analysis, 2000–2014Pablo R. Liboreiro Economic Systems Research, 2023, vol. 35, issue 4, 634-657 Abstract: According to the disguised-unemployment hypothesis, significant wage differences between sectors in less-developed countries result from segmented labour markets and overcrowding of the flexible market segment. So stated, this hypothesis implies a way to measure non-open unemployment: by the amount of labour that must be withdrawn from the market for relative wages to change. Indeed, it is possible to undertake the exercise of comparing the actual employment of a country with a simulated ‘non-dualistic’ employment by means of a non-linear input-output model and taking the US wage structure as a benchmark. This simulation experiment was carried out for seven middle-income countries (Brazil, China, Indonesia, India, Russia, Mexico, and Turkey) using data from the 2016 Release of the World Input–Output Database. The results of the study are consistent with the disguised-unemployment hypothesis, as well as with related literature. Date: 2023 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:ecsysr:v:35:y:2023:i:4:p:634-657 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2022.2135091 Access Statistics for this article Economic Systems Research is currently edited by Bart Los and Manfred Lenzen More articles in Economic Systems Research from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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