Code for the Impact of Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises on Workers

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) David Arnold, University of California, San Diego

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Project Citation:

Arnold, David. Code for the Impact of Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises on Workers. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-09-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/E130327V1

Project Description

Summary: While privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remains a popular policy tool in many countries, the impacts on workers are unclear. This paper studies the case of Brazil, which implemented a large privatization programs in the 1990s. Following privatization, incumbent workers in privatized SOEs suffer a wage decline of roughly 25 percent relative to a matched control group. Additionally, private-sector firms that are connected to privatized SOEs by labor mobility also reduce wages. A summary calculation suggests that privatization decreased the formal sector wage by 3 percent, with about two-thirds of this effect due to the indirect impact on private-sector workers.

These materials provide the code necessary to replicate the main results and the appendix results in the paper.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Privatization ; Brazil ; Labor market; Wages; spillovers

JEL Classification:
      J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
      J23 Labor Demand
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

Geographic Coverage: Brazil

Time Period(s): 1/1/1992 – 12/30/2010

Universe: Formal sector workers in Brazil

Data Type(s): administrative records data; observational data; program source code; survey data

Methodology

Sampling: Administrative data on universe of formal sector workers

Data Source: Brazil Ministry of Labor -- RAIS administrative dataset
IBGE -- PNAD household surveys
IPEA -- data on the real value of the minimum wage

Unit(s) of Observation: individual

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