A Quantile Regression Analysis of Wages in Panama
Evangelos Falaris
Review of Development Economics, 2008, vol. 12, issue 3, 498-514
Abstract:
Differences in the effects of worker characteristics on wages in Panama at different points of the conditional wage distribution are investigated. Public sector employment increases wages relatively more at lower quantiles. Within the public sector, employment in that sector increases wages of the median worker and reduces wage inequality. Presence of a labor union increases relatively more private sector wages at lower quantiles. Unions reduce wage inequality within the union private sector and increase average wages within that sector. In the public sector, the presence of a labor union increases wages of men at lower quantiles at a lower rate than in the private sector. Self‐employment decreases wages at lower quantiles and increases wages at higher quantiles. Urban location affects wages in a U‐shaped pattern as one moves from lower to higher quantiles. Rates of return to experience are higher for men at higher quantiles. Experience increases men's wage inequality.
Date: 2008
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