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1 V. J. Hotz Rev. May 26, 2007 More on Roy Model of Self-Selection Results drawn on Heckman and Sedlacek JPE, 1985 and Heckman and Honoré, Econometrica, Two-sector model in which: Agents are income maximizers, i.e., agent works in sector in which has highest income. Mobility between sectors is costless, but they can work in only one sector (sector 1 or sector 2). Each sector requires sector-specific task and agents have two skills T 1 and T 2. Assume aggregate skill distribution given, i.e., short-run model. (No investment possibilities to change skills.) Prices for skills are assumed to be known by agents at time of making sectoral choice decision. (Certainty of prices not crucial.) T i denotes amount of sector i task an agent can perform. π i is price or return to worker for working in sector i, (π i > 0). (No capital in this model.) Continue with the normality assumption of original Roy Model, i.e., lnt1 μ1 ~ N, lnt Σ 2 μ 2 (1) So that the log wage for working in Sector i given by: lnw = lnπ + ln. (2) i i T i 1

2 so that lnw lnw = lnπ + μ + U1 = lnπ + μ + U where (U 1,U 2 ) is mean zero normal vector. The Agent works in Sector 1 iff: or W1 π1t1 π 2T2 W 2 2 = > = (3) lnw1 > lnw2 lnπ1+ μ1+ U1 > lnπ2 + μ2 + U2. (4) U U > ln( π π ) + μ μ So that proportion of population working in sector 1 given by proportion of population for which: Then it follows that 2 T1 T. 2 π1 1 π > (5) Pr( i) = P(lnWi > ln Wj) =Φ( c i ) (6) * c = ln( π π ) + μ μ σ, σ = var(u U 2 and Φ() is i,j = 1, 2, i j, where ( ) * i i j i j the CDF for a standard normal random variable. 1 2

3 4. If σ 11 = σ 12, there is no selection bias in Sector 1, i.e., mean of lnt 1 employed in sector 1 equals μ 1. Furthermore, note that it is also the case that the variance of lnt 1 employed in Sector 1 is equal to the variance of lnt 1 in the population. Finally, note that if σ 11 = σ 12 = σ 22, there is no selection bias in either sector. In this case, the sorting across sectors would look as if agents were randomly assigned to the two sectors. More on Effect of Self-Selection on Distribution of Earnings across Sectors To gain further insight into the effect of self-selection on the distribution of earnings, consider the following: Recall that under normality, the regression equation for lnt 2 condition on lnt 1 is given by: where ( 2 ) 0 σ lnt = μ + ln μ + ε, (13) ( T ) σ11 2 E ε = and var( ε2) = σ 22 1 ( σ12 σ11σ22). Consider Figure 1 which plots (13) when σ 12 = σ 11 [so σ 12 > 0] and μ 2 > μ 1 > 0. In this case, agents with high values of lnt 1 also tend to have high values of lnt 2. Points to note: (a) If π 1 = π 2, agents with endowments of (lnt 1, lnt 2 ) above the 45 line (equal income line) choose to work in Sector 2 and those below choose to work in Sector 1. (b) For any given value of lnt 1 = lnt k, the same proportion of agents work in Sector 1, for all k. Therefore, the distribution of lnt 1 employed in Sector 1 is the same as in the latent population distribution, i.e., self-selection in this case does not distort the population distribution of skills. (c) If raise π 1 (or lower π 2 ), which shifts the 45 line upward, more agents now work in Sector 1 than before. But, it follows from (b) that the same proportion of people enter Sector 1 at each value of T 1 = t k for all k. 5

4 Figure 1 6

5 Now consider Figure 2 which plots (13) when σ 12 > σ 11 [so still the case that σ 12 > 0] and μ 2 > μ 1 > 0. Assume initially that π 1 = π 2. Points to note: (a) As we have already seen for this case, the mean of skill level in Sector is lower than the population mean level of T 1. (b) Moreover, agents with high amounts of T 1 are under-represented in Sector 1. Why? Given π 1 = π 2, this occurs because μ 2 > μ 1, i.e., the typical agent will have a higher level of lnt 2 than lnt 1. (c) Note that in the extreme case, where lnt 1 and lnt 2 are perfectly positively correlated, we have the extreme version of absolute advantage or hierarchical sorting. In this case, the highest paid worker in Sector 1 earns the same as the lowest paid worker in Sector 2! There is really only one skill and agents can be ranked by this skill. (d) Now if we raise π 1 (or lower π 2 ), attracting workers to Sector 1, the mean of lnt 1 must go up. For this to happen, workers from the upper end of the lnt 1 distribution will switch to Sector 1. Furthermore, note that an x% increase in π 1 leads to a more than x% increase average lnw 1 in Sector 1 since the average quality of workers in Sector 1 rose. Finally, if we consider case where σ 12 < σ 11 and μ 2 > μ 1 > 0, then (a) Again, as we have already seen, mean of lnt 1 will exceed μ 1 in equilibrium. (b) Moreover, the proportion of workers from each lnt 1 = lnt k group working in this sector will increase with higher values of lnt 1. (c) Here, an x% increase in π 1 leads to a less than x% increase average wages (lnw 1 ) in Sector 1 as the mean level of skills (lnt 1 ) employed in Sector 1 declines. (d) Note that it is possible that if σ 12 > σ 22 an increase in π 1 can cause measured sector 1 wages to decline. Note that this can never happen if σ 12 < 0 or, more generally comparative holds. 7

6 Figure 2 8

7 Figure 3: Second Moments Analysis ln t israel ln t local Regression downward sloping; Equal income 45 degree line xviii

8 With these functional specifications the proportion of workers in sector is given by: 8 ( ) = (ln +ln[1 (L)] ln +ln[1 (L)]) = Φ( ) (8) 6= ; =1 2 where Φ( ) is the cdf of a standard normal variable and = ln +ln [1 (L)] [1 (L)] + 6= (9) q = ( ) The proportion of workers in sector will increase as the task price in that sector gets relatively higher, as relative travel costs for the sector (L) decline, or as the mean of the task gets relatively bigger. In addition it depends on the variance and co-variance terms in Σ via 3.2 Patterns of Self-Selection Post-selection the conditional mean and variance of the sectorial wage distribution can be characterized; note that these will also characterize the observed distribution if the model holds true: (ln ln +ln[1 (L)] ln +ln[1 (L)]) = ln + + ( ) (10) 2 (ln ln +ln[1 (L)] ln +ln[1 (L)]) = [1 ( ) 2 ( )] +(1 2 ) (11) 6= ; =1 2 where: = ( ) 6= ; =1 2 ( ) = ( ) Φ( ) 8 The following equations are based on the properties of incidentally truncated bivariate normal distributions. 11

9 with ( ) denoting the density of a standard normal variable. This set-up provides for a rich set of outcomes. The focus here is on issues that will be relevant for the empirical work below. The discussion which follows refers to equations (10)-(11), i.e., to the two moments of the conditional log-normal wage distribution. It is possible to classify the selection outcomes in terms of the relations between the elements 22 of Σ: and 12 or alternatively between 11 and 12 = Assuming, without loss of generality, that the different outcomes depend on the relation between the ratio of the standard deviation in each sector 12. Three cases are possible: and the correlation between the two sectorial distributions (i) The correlation between the sectors is positive and relatively high, i.e., In this case the term in equation (10) is positive for sector 2 and negative for sector 1. Thus the conditional mean in sector 2 (sector 1) is higher (lower) than the unconditional mean, ln + (note that ( ) is positive). Selection is positive in sector 2 and negative in sector 1. Because of the high correlation, this is a comparative advantage case rather than absolute advantage, i.e., workers who do well in a certain sector may still select the other one and workers may select a sector that they do badly in. (ii) The correlation between the sectors is negative, i.e., In this case the term in equation (10) is positive for each sector so the conditional mean in each sector is higher than the unconditional mean. This is a case of positive selection in the two sectors or of absolute advantage each sector tends to be filled with the workers that perform best in the sector. (iii) The correlation between the sectors is positive but relatively low, i.e., 0 12 In this case too the term 9 Note the following definitions which will appear below: in equation (10) is positive for both sectors, and in each sector there 1 = = = Remarking that 12 is bounded from above by

10 is positive selection, though it is once more comparative and not absolute advantage which dictates selection. Note that this case includes 12 =0, i.e., the endowment of tasks are uncorrelated. Note that task prices and mean abilities operate through and ( ). They do not determine the afore cited selection patterns but they do affect the magnitude of selection. Borjas (1987) offered a classification of the afore-cited outcomes in terms of immigration selection patterns: a. Positive selection of immigrants when the host economy has greater wage inequality (i.e., the higher ) and the correlation between economies ( 12 ) is relatively high, then the best workers leave the home economy and perform well in the host economy. b. Negative selection of immigrants when the home economy has the greater wage inequality and 12 is relatively high then the immigrants come from the lower tail of the home distribution and these immigrants do not perform well in the host economy. Both these cases correspond to the one classified as (i) above, each case defining sector 1 and sector 2 differently. The key point here is that it matters which economy has the bigger wage inequality. c. Refugee sorting the correlation is relatively low so the host economy draws below average immigrants but they do well in the (host) economy. These are cases (ii) and (iii) above with positive selection in each sector. 4 Data, Methodology, and Results In this section I estimate selection and wage equations for Palestinians working in Israel and East Jerusalem as one sector and working locally (in the West Bank and Gaza) as the other sector. In what follows I discuss the data (4.1), the econometric methodology (4.2), and identification and specification issues (4.3). I then report the results (4.4). The analysis and interpretation are left to the subsequent sections. 13

11 Wagesinthisset-uparegivenby: ln ( ) =ln +ln ( ) (4) Additionally, I postulate to make the model consistent with the data to be examined that the individual has travel costs to work. These depend on a vector of variables related to location, to be denoted L and are formulated as a fraction (L) of wages (so as to make their units of measure be in wage terms): travel costs = (L) I discuss these variables in the empirical work below. An income-maximizing individual chooses the sector that satisfies: Hence: (1 (L)) (1 (L)) (5) [ ( )] [1 (L)] [ ( )] [1 (L)] 6= ; =1 2 (6) Further analysis requires the adoption of specific functional forms for the density of skills and the function mapping skills to tasks Roy (1951) assumed that these are such that the tasks are log-normal i.e. (ln 1 ln 2 ) have a mean ( 1 2 ) and co-variance matrix Σ (with elements denoted by ) Denoting a zero-mean, normal vector by ( 1 2 ) the workers choose between two wages: ln 1 = ln (7) ln 2 = ln If ln 1 +ln[1 1 (L)] ln 2 +ln [1 2 (L)] the worker enters sector 1. If the converse is true, the worker enters sector 2. 10

12 With these functional specifications the proportion of workers in sector is given by: 8 ( ) = (ln +ln[1 (L)] ln +ln[1 (L)]) = Φ( ) (8) 6= ; =1 2 where Φ( ) is the cdf of a standard normal variable and = ln +ln [1 (L)] [1 (L)] + 6= (9) q = ( ) The proportion of workers in sector will increase as the task price in that sector gets relatively higher, as relative travel costs for the sector (L) decline, or as the mean of the task gets relatively bigger. In addition it depends on the variance and co-variance terms in Σ via 3.2 Patterns of Self-Selection Post-selection the conditional mean and variance of the sectorial wage distribution can be characterized; note that these will also characterize the observed distribution if the model holds true: (ln ln +ln[1 (L)] ln +ln[1 (L)]) = ln + + ( ) (10) 2 (ln ln +ln[1 (L)] ln +ln[1 (L)]) = [1 ( ) 2 ( )] +(1 2 ) (11) 6= ; =1 2 where: = ( ) 6= ; =1 2 ( ) = ( ) Φ( ) 8 The following equations are based on the properties of incidentally truncated bivariate normal distributions. 11

13 4.2 Econometric Methodology Estimation of equations (7) for workers employed locally and employed in Israel will yield estimates of all the key elements of the model, i.e., ln and the elements of Σ To do that the following procedure is used: (i)ipositthatln = where is decomposed into observed and unobserved variables and,and their associated coefficients, are and respectively. Thus equations (7) become: ln =ln + X + =1 2 (12) where = X = and = (ii) When estimating (12), I take into account sample selection, which is inherent in the model. Thus define the variable : = ln 1 +ln(1 1 (L)) ln 2 ln(1 2 (L)) (13) = ln 1 ln 2 +ln(1 1 (L)) ln(1 2 (L)) + 1 X 2 X and the indicator variable : = 1 0 (14) = 0 otherwise we have: According to the model one observes ln 1 only if 0 i.e., when =1 Paralleling (8) Pr( = 1) = Φ(ln 1 +ln (1 1(L)) 2 (1 2 (L)) + 1X 2 X ) (15) Pr( = 0) = 1 Φ(ln 1 +ln (1 1(L)) 2 (1 2 (L)) + 1X 2 X ) Based on equations (10) - (11) we know that the observed ln 1 is thus given by: 15

14 11 12 ln 1 ( =1)=ln X + ( 1 )+ 1 (16) This may also be written as follows: ln 1 ( =1)=ln X ( 1 )+ 1 (17) A similar equation holds true for the other sector. Note that while the X vector appears in both (15) and (17), the L vector appears only in the selection equation (15). I estimate the model using Full Maximum Likelihood. Following Heckman (1979) one can interpret the selection bias in (12) as an omitted variable bias. If ( ) is not included in the equation, the estimates of the vector of coefficients may be biased. The intuition is as follows: not including ( ) as a regressor ignores the influence of all the variables in question on the dependent variable which is the conditional wage through the self-selection process. This influence comes in addition to the direct effect expressed by. Thus the uncorrected OLS estimate does not take into account the co-variation between the variable in question (education, for example) and the selectivity variable The sign of the bias depends on the effect of on selection and on the effect of selectivity on the dependent variable, i.e., on wages in this case. The following equation expresses this bias formally. For any variable in X: (ln ( =1)) = + (18) There are three components to the selectivity bias term (the second term on the RHS): i (i) this is the term determining the type of selection taking place (based on h unobservables) as discussed above. Note that it can be negative (in one sector of case i above) or positive (the other sector of case i and in cases ii and iii). This term expresses the effect of selectivity on wages. (ii) 0 this negative term expresses the relation between the selectivity regressor and the proportion of the workers in the sector or the probability that an observation be included in the sample; as this proportion (or probability) increases, the bias diminishes. (iii) this term expresses the influence of the variable in question on selection. Note 16

15 that Pr( =1)=Φ( ) Thus the sign of this component is determined by estimates of the selection equations (15). The sign of the bias depends on the type of selection process (point i) and on the direction of influence of the relevant variable on the sectorial selection (point iii). The magnitude depends on these factors as well as on the term. 4.3 Identification and Specification The identification problems of selection models have been much explored. Moffitt (1999) offers a discussion of the key issues and their possible resolution. The prevalent method is the use of exclusion restrictions. The way the model here can be estimated using exclusion restrictions is by postulating variables that affect travel costs, and hence selection, but not wages. Three such variables in this data set that would be plausible are: 13 (i) Geographical regions or localities. This is a useful measure of the determinants of travel costs because workers are located in different distances from the locations of employers and therefore face different costs in terms of travel time and the actual payment for travel. (ii) Type of residence. The type of residence variable includes rural areas, urban areas, and refugee camps. These may serve to indicate travel costsasruralresidentsarelikelytobemore spread out and refugee camps residents are likely to be more concentrated. In camps there are likely to be organized, common means of transport. (iii) Marital status. This variable is not directly related to travel costs but may serve to indicate costs that pertain to the economic life of the household; for example, a migrant worker has less time to engage in home production or to take care of the children, and so working in Israel is more costly for a married worker as opposed to an unmarried person. The data sample does not contain other variables relating to the household that could provide additional exclusion restrictions. Hence, for the travel cost function (L) included in the selection equation only, I postulate the following: (L) = X + X 13 The results of the selection equations (19) reported below demonstrate that these variables are indeed significant. 17

16 where is the region of the worker s residence, is an index of regions, is a coefficient to be estimated; the variables are additional variables affecting travel costs and are their coefficients to be estimated; as before, sector indicates the local or host economy.. The s andthe s are estimated in the selection equations (15). The variables are the dummy variables for geographical regions or localities discussed above. The variables are the type of residence and martial status variables. Summary statistics of these variables appear in Table 1 above. For the task function variables X included in both the selection and wage equations, I use education and a linear-quadratic formulation for experience 14. I also use indicator variables for the quarters within 1987, which I do not report. Approximating I get: ln(1 (L)) = ln(1 X + X ) ' X X The selection equations are thus: Pr( = 1) = Φ(ln X 2 X 1 + X 2 X X 2 X )(19) Pr( = 0) = 1 Φ(ln X 2 X 1 + X 2 X X 2 X ) The estimated wage equation is the following: ln sector =ln X + + ( )+ (20) =2 where denote sectors, is an indicator variable for the quarter, and denotes the quarter number. The dependent variable in the wage equation is the log of real hourly wages (ln ), 14 Experience being defined as age minus education minus 5. 18

17 defined as the nominal monthly wage divided by hours worked and deflated by the CPI. 15 The use of hourly wages is designed to avoid confounding the choice of work place with the choice of work time (hours or days). 16 Education ( ) and experience ( ) aredefinedinyears. The benchmark specification reported below [column (1) of Tables 2 and 3] has no exclusion restrictions.. The alternative, specification 2, includes all the variables discussed above contained in L so there are three exclusion restrictions. Specification (3) uses OLS to test for the effect of selection correction (running only the wage equation). 4.4 Results Tables 2 and 3 report the results. Table 2 reports the estimates of the selection equation and Table 3 reports the estimates of the wage equation for the specifications discussed above. In each case I report the point estimates with standard errors in parentheses; in the wage regressions I also report the implied second moments ( and 12 ), and two test statistics: the Wald test and the =0 test (both using 2 test statistics, with P-values in parentheses). Tables 2 and 3 The following results emerge: (i) Migration selection is negatively related to education, experience, refugee camp and urban residence, and is positively related to being married. (ii) The constant of the equation is substantially higher in Israel. (iii) While education and experience premia are fairly standard in local employment, they are very low in Israel employment. Consistent with this finding are the afore-cited selection equation results, whereby education and experience decrease the probability of choosing employment in Israel. 15 Real, rather than nominal, wages are used as inflation was relatively high (16.1%) in the course of I delete observations of nominal hourly wages less than 0.1 NIS and higher than 11.5 NIS. These are the lowest 1% and highest 0.2% of the wage distribution. For these observations wages are either extremely low or unreasonably high, indicating that they are either measured with error or that they reflect very few hours of monthly work. A similar procedure was employed by Heckman and Sedlacek (1985). 19

18 Table 3 The Wage Equation Dependent variable: log real hourly wage (1) (2) (3) no exclusion restrictions three exclusion restrictions OLS Local Israel Local Israel Local Israel constant (0.065) (0.017) (0.028) (0.017) (0.022) (0.017) education (0.002) (0.002) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) experience (0.002) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) (0.001) experience (0.003) (0.002) (0.003) (0.002) (0.003) (0.002) (0.080) (0.109) (0.032) (0.061) (0.004) (0.003) (0.004) (0.003) Wald test ( 2 ) , (0.00) (0.00) (0.00) (0.00) =0test ( 2 ) (0.54) (0.72) (0.03) (0.06) 7,206 11,670 7,206 11,670 7,206 11,670 v

19 Notes: 1. The sample includes all wage earners except those with hourly wages below 0.1 NIS and above 11.5 NIS (cutting lowest 1% and highest 0.2%). 2. The specifications are discussed in Section 4.3; see in particular equation (20). 3. is the number of observations in the regression. 4. Standard errors of the coefficients are in parentheses. 5. The regressions included dummy variables for quarters, which are not reported. 6. The Wald test is distributed 2. The =0test using 2 (1) is an LR test of the null hypothesis that =0 P-values appear in parentheses. 7. The second moment estimates use the relations: 1 = 2 = vi

20 coefficients is due to the size of the term In contrast the estimate of ( ) is such that the mean wage premium, analyzed in detail below, is substantial. 5.2 Self-Selection and the Unobserved Skills Distributions Tables 2 and 3 above report estimates of the unobserved skills variance-co-variance matrix ( P ). These allow for the analysis of the self-selection process on unobservables. As discussed in subsection 2.2. above, a key issue is the relationship between the correlation of the unobserved skill 11 distributions in the two sectors ( 12 ) and the relative skill standard deviations 22 The results indicate that: (i) The correlation is around zero. It is much lower than the ratio of standard deviations. (ii) The variance in local employment is higher than that of employment in Israel ( ). As a more heuristic way of seeing this result, Figure 2 plots the residuals from the OLS regressions reported in Table 3 together with fitted normal densities. The local distribution can be seen to be mostely to the right of the Israel distribution. Figure 2 These results are reasonable: the low correlation is probably due to the fact that local and Israeli occupational tasks differed, as discussed above. In particular, government employment was predominant locally and required very different skills than those needed for the occupations that dominated employment in Israel construction, manufacturing and agriculture. The latter require skills that are less dispersed than those in the more high-skilled occupations of local employment an anybody can do it effect hence the lower variance in Israel employment. As a consequence selection was positive in each sector. This corresponds to case (ii) discussed in sub-section 2.2 above, with positive selection. It constitutes a refugee sorting case in the Borjas (1987) terminology. Willis and Rosen (1979) discuss the nature of the correlation 12. They point out that there is a difference between a one-dimensional approach, whereby skills reflect one factor such as IQ, and 23

21 Table 6 Decomposition of Mean Wages and of the Mean Wage Differential a. Mean Log Wages ln = b + β b X + b d d ln = b + b β X + d d local Israel difference mean ln actual d b bβx b c b b. The Mean Wage Differential I ln ln = b b +X ( β b β b ) + β b (X X ) d d d +b d d ln ln b b X ( β b β b ) bβ (X X ) d d d b d d ix

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