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We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially...
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Using data for the 1990’s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in...
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. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …
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north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …
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of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … being employed as a worker of high rank. There is relatively little income inequality among workers of high rank as well as … among workers of middle rank. Mean income and household wealth per capita of highly-ranked workers developed more favorably …
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