TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Shiferaw, Admasu
AU  - Bedi, Arjun S.
AU  - Söderbom, Mans
AU  - Alemu, Getnet
        TI  - Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
        PY  - 2017/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10903
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10903
        AB  - This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 for private sector employees in the formal sector. We use firm-level panel data and exploit differences in pre-reform pension plans across firms to identify the effects of the reform. We find no evidence of employers fully shifting the cost of pension benefits to workers in the form of lower wages. 
In fact the reform seems to be associated with an increase in real wage rates particularly among large firms. Firm-level employment declined after the reform with a greater contraction among firms without pre-reform provident funds and firms that were initially small. The composition of the workforce also shifted in favor of skilled workers although this effect may not be attributed entirely to the pension reform. We also find an increase in firm-level investment, capital per worker, and labor productivity. 
        KW  - social insurance
KW  - pension reform
KW  - labor markets
KW  - Ethiopia
        ER  -