Le dualisme du marché du travail en Tunisie: choix occupationnel et écart salarial

Faouzi Sboui

Economie & Prévision, 2006, vol. n° 174, issue 3, 21-37

Abstract: The author's research is predicated on the notion of labor-market dualism, which assumes a sectoral dichotomy defined by the degree of institutional protection of jobs held. The analysis of data from the 1999 Tunisian labor-force survey suggests that the protected-employment sector hires 82% of the population on the labor market. The analysis of the return on human-capital investment highlights the existence of an earnings gap due to the division between protected and unprotected jobs rather than to differences in individual profiles. Viewed in conjunction with the phenomenon of constrained choice of occupation sector, this result corroborates the validity of the labor-market segmentation hypothesis in Tunisia.

Keywords: labor market; segmentation; selection bias; human capital; wage gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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