Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Jan, 1991, Volume 59, Issue 1

Segmented or Competitive Labor Markets

https://doi.org/0012-9682(199101)59:1<165:SOCLM>2.0.CO;2-I
p. 165-187

Th. Magnac

We develop an integrated microeconomic model derived from a labor supply model in a four-sector labor market with explicit demand constraints. This method allows us to test several assumptions on labor market equilibria: strongly or weakly competitive or segmented. We show that more important a feature of labor markets than segmentation is the presence of comparative advantages for individuals between the various economic sectors. The model is applied to data on women's labor force participation in the main towns of Colombia in 1980. It uses multivariate Probit and Tobit techniques.


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