Essays on labor economics and applied econometrics
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Vancouver School of Economics
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degree campus: UBCV
creator: Corcuera Garcia, Paul Josemaria
issued: 2024-09-13T22:10:17Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This dissertation consists of three distinct chapters in labor economics and applied econometrics. In the first chapter, I use detailed Peruvian social security records combined with firm-level financial data to analyze the impact of a minimum wage increase, enacted in Peru in 2016, on workers and firms, with a focus on the role of the informal sector in explaining these effects. I show that firms facing greater competition from the informal sector find it more difficult to adjust wages or prices in response, and are thus more likely to reduce employment. The second chapter presents a redistribution analysis of the minimum wage increase studied in Chapter 1. I show that low-wage formal employees' purchasing power increased, as the expected change in income is positive and exceeds the expected increase in expenses following the wage hike. I also show that most of the minimum wage pass-through to prices is borne by high-income individuals and households. However, redistribution towards low-income households is limited, as these households are largely composed of informal workers, who are unaffected by this policy. The third chapter proposes a method to estimate the joint cumulative distribution function of treatment effects across multiple outcomes in a difference-in-differences research design and demonstrates the validity of a multiplier bootstrap to construct uniform confidence bands.
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note: Essays on Labor Economics andApplied EconometricsbyPaul Josemaria Corcuera GarciaB.Econ, Universidad de Piura, 2015M.A., The University of British Columbia, 2017A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFTHE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHYinTHE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE STUDIES(Economics)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Vancouver)September 2024© Paul Josemaria Corcuera Garcia 2024The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend tothe Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesisentitled:Essays on Labor Economics and Applied Econometricssubmitted by Paul Josemar´ıa Corcuera Garc´ıa in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophyin EconomicsExamining Committee:Raffaele Saggio, Associate Professor, Economics, University of British ColumbiaSupervisorClaudio Ferraz, Professor, Economics, University of British ColumbiaUniversity ExaminerGuillermo Marshall, Associate Professor, Sauder School of Business, Uni-versity of British ColumbiaUniversity ExaminerFrancesco Amodio, Associate Professor, Economics, McGill UniversityExternal ExaminerAdditional Supervisory Committee Members:Thomas Lemieux, Professor, Economics, University of British ColumbiaSupervisory Committee MemberNicole Fortin, Professor, Economics, University of British ColumbiaSupervisory Committee MemberKyungchul Song, Professor, Economics, University of British ColumbiaSupervisory Committee MemberiiAbstractThis dissertation consists of three distinct chapters in labor economics andapplied econometrics. In the first chapter, I use detailed Peruvian socialsecurity records combined with firm-level financial data to analyze the im-pact of a minimum wage increase, enacted in Peru in 2016, on workers andfirms, with a focus on the role of the informal sector in explaining theseeffects. I show that firms facing greater competition from the informal sec-tor find it more difficult to adjust wages or prices in re…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0445395
language: eng
degree discipline: Economics
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Saggio, Raffaele
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89247