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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Spanish regional unemployment revisited: The role of capital accumulation

Bande, Roberto; Karannassou, Marika - 2010

This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can capture the unemployment effects of growing variables such as … capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …

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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...

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Åslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, when comparing different establishments within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that...

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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007

Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring … in the three Latin American countries, but not in transition economies. It also finds evidence of extensive mobility …

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Labour market dynamics in Australia: What drives unemployment

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

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Do reduced child care prices make parents work more?

Lundin, Daniela; Mörk, Eva; Öckert, Björn - 2007

This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local governments could charge parents, and lead to...

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Job polarization and task-biased technological change: Sweden, 1975-2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane's (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Oznur Kan, Elif - 2012

across distinct employment states utilizing Markov transition processes. As Bosch and Maloney (2007:3) argue: "labor status … between particular states are governed by Markov transition matrices". Towards this end, we will use the novel Income and … Living Conditions Survey (SILC) panel data set to compute the transition probabilities of individuals moving across the labor …

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