Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Urban West Africa

Bocquier, Philippe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vescovo, Aude

Bocquier, Philippe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vescovo, Aude (2010), Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Urban West Africa, World Development, 38, 9, p. 1297-1314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.02.011

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié

Date

2010

Nom de la revue

World Development

Volume

Numéro

Éditeur

Elsevier

Pages

1297-1314

Résumé (EN)

This article develops indicators of vulnerability in employment in seven economic capitals of West Africa and studies their links with individual incomes. Quantitative, distributional and qualitative analyses show that vulnerability compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector, in the upper tail of the earnings distribution and particularly in the circumstance of visible underemployment. Employment vulnerability is not compensated for the poorest workers in the private sector. Long “job queues” and weak institutional protection of workers may have reduced bargaining power in the formal sector.

Mots-clés

Afrique de l'Ouest; West Africa; secteur informel; revenus; différentiels compensatoires; conditions de travail; vulnérabilité; vulnerability; working conditions; compensating differentials; earnings; informal sector