Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa

被引:18
作者
Falco, Paolo [1 ]
Maloney, William F. [2 ,3 ]
Rijkers, Bob [2 ]
Sarrias, Mauricio [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Econ, Ctr Study African Econ, Oxford OX1 2JD, England
[2] World Bank, Dev Econ Res Grp, Washington, DC 20433 USA
[3] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[4] Univ Catolica Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
关键词
Subjective wellbeing; Mixed ordered probit; Self-employment; Informality; Developing country labor markets; Africa; PANEL-DATA ANALYSIS; URBAN LABOR-MARKET; JOB-SATISFACTION; SELF-EMPLOYMENT; DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; MIXED LOGIT; INFORMALITY; HAPPINESS; DYNAMICS; MOBILITY;
D O I
10.1016/j.jebo.2014.12.022
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment. We find little evidence for the overall inferiority of the small firm informal sector relative to the formal salaried sector at the conditional mean. Moreover, the estimated underlying random parameter distributions unveil substantial latent heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing around the central tendency that fixed parameter models cannot detect. All job categories contain substantial shares of both relatively happy and disgruntled workers. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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页码:137 / 153
页数:17
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