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Universities have come under increasing pressure to become key drivers of economic development in the age of the knowledge economy. Yet we know very little about the impact of university quality and scientific excellence on the probability of graduates finding jobs. This paper investigates the...
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In this paper we apply a semi-parametric approach (quantile regression - QR) to the last 2007 wave of the EU-SILC data set, in order to explore the connection between education and wage inequality in 8 European countries. We find that wages increase with education and this holds true across the...
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In this paper we investigate whether inequality in the inter-industry wage premia may be explained by unobserved differences in workers’ educational skills. We use the 2007 EU-SILC data set for Portugal, a nation which can be considered a case-study, due to its high inter-industry wage...
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This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that in most...
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Universities have come under increasing pressure to become key drivers of economic development in the age of the knowledge economy. Yet we know very little about the impact of university quality and scientific excellence on the probability of graduates finding jobs. This paper investigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258403
This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of a minimum wage increase on employment, wages, and expenditures of workers in the formal sector who have wages below the minimum level in Vietnam. Using the difference-in-differences with propensity score matching and Vietnam Household...
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demand over income and employment. The results highlight the main differences among the productive structures of the regions …
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income insecurity to the proliferation of informal enterprise through job insecurity in selected SSA countries. The study …, Kenya and the DRC. The analyses suggested that income insecurity exist in the form of significant seasonal variations in … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job …
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This paper examines the causality between income, unemployment and crime in 11 European countries employing the panel …. Fixed and random effect models are estimated to analyze the impact of income and unemployment on total crime and various … both income and unemployment have meaningful relationship with both aggregated and disaggregated crime. Crime exhibits …
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patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …
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