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1 WP January 2011 Working Paper Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Econoics and Manageent Cornell University, Ithaca, New York USA A NOTE ON MEASURING THE DEPTH OF MINIMUM WAGE VIOLATION Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur and Natasha Mayet

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3 A Note on Measuring the Depth of Miniu Wage Violation Haroon Bhorat Developent Policy Research Unit Robert Leslie Social Science Building, 4th Floor, Upper Capus, Rondebosch University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa Ravi Kanbur * Cornell University 309 Warren Hall Ithaca, NY , USA Phone: Fax: Contact eail: sk145@cornell.edu Natasha Mayet Developent Policy Research Unit Robert Leslie Social Science Building, 4th Floor, Upper Capus, Rondebosch University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa natasha.ayet@uct.ac.za July 2010 Abstract In the epirical literature on iniu wage enforceent, the standard approach is to easure the nuber of violations, not their depth. In this paper we present a faily of violation indices which, by analogy with poverty indices, can ephasize the depth of violation to different degrees. The standard easure is a special case of this faily of indices, but other ebers of the faily highlight the depth of violation. We present an application to South Africa to show that the depth of violation atters, and is not captured by the standard easure in actual situations. Key Words: Miniu Wage, Depth of Violation, South Africa JEL Codes: J38, O55 * Contact Author

4 I. Introduction Developing countries are notorious for poor labour arket conditions (Ronconi, 2008). While ost developing countries have extensive labour regulations and social security systes, copliance in the less developed world is generally low (Ronconi, 2008; Strobl & Walsh, 2003; Maloney and Nunez, 2003). There is a growing theoretical and epirical literature on the proble of non-copliance with iniu wage laws in developing countries (Basu, Chau and Kanbur, 2010; Andalón & Pagés, 2008). In the epirical literature, a standard way of easuring non-copliance is as the fraction of all covered workers whose wages are below the iniu. But this easure does not distinguish between different degrees of violation for exaple, a wage just below the iniu is counted the sae as a wage at one third of the iniu, surely an inexact way to easure a violation of regulation. In Section II this paper proposes a faily of iniu wage violation indices which addressees this proble by appealing to the analogy with poverty indices. Section III applies these indices to South Africa and shows that the depth of violation atters. Section IV concludes. II. A Faily of Violation Indices In the enforceent literature, non-copliance is generally easured as the fraction of all covered workers whose wages fall below the iniu. However, this ethod of easuring copliance does not distinguish between different degrees of violation. For exaple, a wage just below the iniu is equivalent in violation to a wage at one third of the iniu. We propose here an index of violation to capture both the nuber of wage earners falling below the iniu and also how far below the iniu they fall. Consider a distribution of actual wages F(w) with density function f (w), and an official iniu wage w. If there is full copliance, strictly speaking, we should not see any wages at all below w. Since those who would otherwise pay wages below w have no reason to pay above w copliance eans paying a wage w, and non-copliance is paying a wage strictly less than w. We define the easure of individual violation as v= vw (, w) (1) where v is positive if and only if w is strictly less than w, and zero if w is equal to or greater than w. When w is strictly less than w, v is weakly decreasing in w and weakly increasing in w. A particular functional for which satisfies these properties is ( w w) v= ( w, w) = w α (2) for α greater than or equal to zero. In fact, whenα = 0, v becoes an indicator function, taking on the value 1 when w is strictly less than w, and a value of 0 when w is greater 2

5 than or equal to w. Whenα = 1, v is the gap between the actual wage and the official iniu wage, expressed as a fraction of the iniu wage. For values of α greater than 1, the violation function ephasizes large gaps ore a particular value of interest in epirical application will be α = 2 which siply squares the gap to produce a easure of the violation. Having specified a easure of violation for an individual wage, the issue now is how to aggregate these individual violations, and how to noralize this aggregation. A straightforward ethod would be to siply take the expectation of v() over the entire wage distribution, defining overall violation V as: V= E {v(w,w)} (3) with v( w, w) defined as (2) above, V becoes V ( w w) α = E w (4) This will be recognized iediately as the analogue of the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984), FGT easure of poverty, with w acting as the poverty line and w as the incoe. In the poverty context, a higher α captures greater poverty aversion. In our context, higher α siilarly captures violation aversion, ephasizing greater weight given to the worst violations. What difference is ade by different degrees of violation aversion is an epirical question. We turn now to an application of the new easures of iniu wage violation to South Africa. III. Application to South Africa The iniu wage debate is central to South African policy discourse. A detailed account of South African iniu wage institutions, and the relevant data sources for easuring violation, is provided in Bhorat, Kanbur and Mayet (2010). The Eployent Conditions Coission (ECC) is a representative body within the Departent of Labour (DoL) which advises the Minister of Labour on sectoral wage inia. The DoL uses a tea of labour inspectors whose job is to enforce copliance with these sectoral deterinations. There are 11 different sectoral deterinations set by the ECC. 1 In this note we will focus on 9 of these sectors. The inia are further differentiated for soe sectors by geographical area (urban-a; sei-urban-b and rural-c), and are regularly updated for inflation. For data on wages in South Africa we use the Septeber Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for The sectoral and occupational codes in these data are atched with the gazetted iniu wages for different sectors to gauge the violation in each of the 9 sectors. A detailed 1 Specifically Forestry, Agriculture, Contract Cleaning, Children in the Perforance of Advertising, Artistic and Cultural Activities (under fifteen years of age), Taxi Operators, Civil Engineering, Learnerships, Private Security, Doestic Workers, Wholesale and Retails, and Hospitality 3

6 discussion of this data source is provided in Bhorat, Kanbur and Mayet (2010). 2 The estiates for V with α = 0, 1 and 2, denoted V 0, V 1 and V 2, are given in Table 1. Whilst V 0 easures the percentage of workers violated, that is, earning below the iniu, the ratio (V 1 /V 0 ) allows for the interpretation of V 1, since it denotes the percentage shortfall of the average wage of violated workers fro the iniu wage. Put differently, violated workers in this saple are earning on average (V 1 /V 0 ) below the relevant inia. Table 1: Estiates of the Index of Violation, 2007 Sectoral Deterination Index of Violation V 0 V 1 V 2 V 1 /V 0 Retail and Wholesale Doestic Workers Far Workers Forestry Workers Taxi Operators Security Workers Hospitality Workers Contract Cleaners Civil Engineering Total Source: Authors calculations using LFS Septeber 2007 (StatsSA) and ECC sectoral deterinations. The estiates in the last row of Table 1 show that in % of eployees were receiving sub-iniu wages. The violation rate varies fro 67% for Security Workers to 9% for eployees in civil engineering. But is the depth of violation unifor across these sectors? Table 2 suggests that it is not. In this Table the estiates for the three indices have been ranked, with a rank of 1 denoting the highest rate of violation. It can be seen that while the ranks are related, they are not perfectly correlated. For exaple, coparing V 0 and V 2, Forestry Workers change rank fro 3 to 6, Far Workers change fro 2 to 4, whilst taxi operators switch fro being ranked 4 th with V 0 to being 2 nd with V 2. 2 The detailed paper also discusses how we use the 2000 Incoe Expenditure Survey (IES) to atch geographical areas in the LFS to the geographical areas in iniu wage deterinations. 4

7 Table 2: Rank of the Index of Violation, 2007 Sectoral Deterination Index of Violation V 0 V 1 V 2 Retail and Wholesale Doestic Workers Far Workers Forestry Workers Taxi Operators Security Workers Hospitality Workers Contract Cleaners Civil engineering Source: Authors calculations using LFS Septeber 2001 and 2007 (StatsSA) and ECC sectoral deterinations. These descriptions of rank changes are confired in Table 3. In 2007, the correlations between V 0, V 1, and V 2 are all high, but not perfect the lowest value is around 77%. The high correlation coefficient between the rankings of the depth of violation, V 1, and the squared depth of violation, V 2, (at 0.99) is an unsurprising result, recalling that in the latter the individual easure of violation is siply the square of the forer. But note that the correlation coefficient between the V 0 and the V 1 index is higher than that between the V 0 and the V 2 index, suggesting that the headcount of violated individuals and the degree of violation ay be ore closely related than the share of violations is with the degree of violation squared. The lower correlation between these two indices ay reflect the fact that the changes in the are driven by different underlying factors. When severity of violation is strongly ephasized, soe sectors stand out ore sharply. The depth of violation atters. Table 3: Spearan s Rank Order Correlation Coefficients between Violation Indices, 2007 Index Coefficient V 0 and V * V 0 and V * V 1 and V * Source: Authors calculations using LFS Septeber 2001 and 2007 (StatsSA) and ECC sectoral deterinations Note: * indicates significance at 1%. 5

8 IV. Conclusion In the epirical literature on iniu wage enforceent, the standard approach is to easure the nuber of violations, not their depth. In this paper we present a faily of violation indices which, by analogy with poverty indices, can ephasize the depth of violation to different degrees. The standard easure, the percentage of covered workers earning sub-iniu wages, is a special case of this faily of indices, but other ebers of the faily highlight the depth of violation. This faily of easures can be estiated using the sae data that is used to estiate the standard easure of violation. We have presented an application to South Africa to show that the depth of violation atters, and is not captured by the standard easure in actual situations. The new faily of indices of iniu wage violation can play an iportant role in the growing literature on iniu wage enforceent since they are the first step in a richer causal analysis of what deterines the patterns of iniu wage violation (Bhorat, Kanbur and Mayet, 2010). References Andalon, A. and Pagés, C. (2008), Miniu Wages in Kenya, IZA Discussion Papers 3390, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Basu, A., Chau, N. and Kanbur, R. (2010), Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforceent, Credible Coitent, and Miniu Wage Laws, Econoic Journal. Bhorat, H., R. Kanbur and N. Mayet (2010), Miniu Wage Enforceent in South Africa, Paper presented to the Cornell/Michigan conference on Enforceent, Evasion and Inforality, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 4-6, Foster, J., Greer, J. and Thorbecke, E. (1984). A Class of Decoposable Poverty Measures, Econoetrica, Vol. 52(3), pp Ronconi, L. (2008), Enforceent and Copliance with Labour Regulations, Institute for Research on Labour and Eployent, Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley. Available fro: [Accessed Septeber 2009] Maloney, W. and Nunez, J. (2003), Measuring the ipact of iniu wages: evidence fro Latin Aerica. In Law and Eployent. Lessons fro Latin Aerica and the Caribbean edited by J. Heckan and C. Pagès. Cabridge, MA: NBER. Strobl, E. and Walsh, F. (2003), Miniu Wages and Copliance: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago. Econoic Developent and Cultural Change, 51(2), pp

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