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Education as a key to reduce spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labour markets

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  • Facundo Quiroga‐Martínez
  • Esteban Fernández‐Vázquez

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This paper assesses the effects of the individual educational capital on their odds to belong to the formal or informal labour market in Argentina. Using recent microdata that studies more than 11,000 workers we estimate a probit model that relates the probability of belonging to the formal or informal labour market depending on his/her years of schooling and other control variables. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the significant effect of making effective the legal minimum schooling years in order to reduce the informality rate and show that education policies could be used as a way of reducing regional inequalities in Argentina. En este trabajo se evalúan los efectos del capital educativo individual sobre sus posibilidades de pertenecer al mercado laboral formal o informal en Argentina. Mediante la utilización de microdatos recientes que estudiaron a más de 11.000 trabajadores, en este estudio se estimó un modelo probit que relaciona la probabilidad de pertenecer al mercado laboral formal o informal en función de sus años de escolaridad y de otras variables de control. Los hallazgos aportan pruebas empíricas del efecto significativo de hacer cumplir los años de escolaridad mínima legal con el objeto de reducir la tasa de informalidad y muestran que las políticas educativas podrían utilizarse como una forma de reducir las desigualdades regionales en Argentina. 本稿では、アルゼンチンのフォーマル雇用またはインフォーマル雇用の労働市場に属する確率に対する個人の教育資本の影響を評価する。11,000人以上の労働者を調査した最近のマイクロデータを用いて、個人の就学年数および他の制御変数に応じて、フォーマル雇用またはインフォーマル雇用の労働市場に属する確率を関連付けるプロビットモデルを推定した。本研究の知見から、インフォーマル雇用率を減少させるために法定最低就学年数を有効にすることの有意な効果の実証的エビデンスが得られ、教育政策はアルゼンチンの地域格差を減少させる方法として使用できることが示される。

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  • Facundo Quiroga‐Martínez & Esteban Fernández‐Vázquez, 2021. "Education as a key to reduce spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labour markets," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(1), pages 177-189, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:13:y:2021:i:1:p:177-189
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12369
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