Clémentine Sadania*, Laila Ait Bihi Ouali**

Séminaires internes
phd seminar

Clémentine Sadania*, Laila Ait Bihi Ouali**

AMSE
Empowerment at marriage: International migration and the Egyptian marriage market*
Undeclared work : An analysis for France**
Co-écrit avec
Olivier Bargain**
Lieu

IBD Salle 16

Îlot Bernard du Bois - Salle 16

AMU - AMSE
5-9 boulevard Maurice Bourdet
13001 Marseille

Date(s)
Mardi 19 septembre 2017| 12:30 - 14:00
Contact(s)

Edward Levavasseur : edward.levavasseur[at]univ-amu.fr
Océane Piétri : oceane.pietri[at]univ-amu.fr
Morgan Raux : morgan.raux[at]univ-amu.fr

Résumé

*This paper explores how gender unbalanced migration may affect the marriage market of the sending country using exogenous variation of international migration from Egypt. Since 1973, variations in oil prices have led to important waves of male migration towards Arab countries. Affecting local sex ratios, wealth and returns on the labor market, migration potentially disrupted the conditions on the marriage market of the sending country. Using the 2012 round of the ELMPS, I elaborate a synthetic panel based on retrospective data on migration, year of marriage and marriage payments. I develop an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the impacts of the percentage of men being abroad during women’s adolescence on their marriage outcomes and pre-marital investments. Results are consistent with a deterioration of women’s relative position in the marriage market during high migration periods. Looking at the impacts of a past factor on marriage payments, this study offers an additional explanation for the observed trends in traditional marriage payments in Egypt.

**This study investigates the determinants of undeclared work and their influence in both France and Europe. We exploit a unique household survey on undeclared work behaviors of the French (Enquête pilote auprès des ménages sur la fraude, EPMF). We find that undeclared work decisions and acceptability are, for the main part, driven by the individual heterogeneity in the perception of risks and of sanctions, in tax morale and in peer effects. This individual heterogeneity adds itself up to standard sociodemographic and economic variables’ effects. Computing indicative static elasticities, we find that a 1% decrease in several determinants (e.g., auto-estimated risk to be audited) increases by almost 1% the share of undeclared workers. We replicate the analysis on Eurobarometer data – a sample with a similar structure to EPMF - to provide a comparison at the European level. The replication provides similar results for EPMF and France’s subset of the Eurobarometer, thus validating the sampling methodology of both databases. We also find important similarities of undeclared work practices between France and European countries such as Denmark or Germany.