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Count your hours : returns to education in Poland

Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009

measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 … comprehensive analysis of the effects of using different methods and the issue of selection-correction in the estimation of the wage … estimation performs relatively well for men in comparison to our preferred selection corrected estimation, while using family …

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Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using micro data from the Household Budget Surveys, we find that, after a brief spike in 1989, income and consumption inequality actually declined to below pretransition levels during...

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Changes in the structure of earnings during the Polish transition

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially from 1988 to 1996. A common view is that the reallocation of workers from a public sector with a compressed wage distribution, to a private...

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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition

Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021

This paper documents that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially during the economic transition in Poland. One surprising result is that earnings inequality increased markedly in both the private and public sectors, indicating that even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved...

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