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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666520
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Families as Shocks
Cubeddu, Luis; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
In this Paper we show the quantitative importance of the process that determines changes in family composition to determine the main macroeconomic magnitudes. We do so by modeling family type as a stochastic process that affects households in a way similar to shocks to earnings. Agents respond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661668
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The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain
Bailey, Roy E; Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788943
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656270
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …
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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205061
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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Cohort Size and Female Labor Supply
Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and … female net wages therefore stimulate female labor supply. The example of Sweden shows that pronatalist policies can be …
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Unemployment in Interwar Britain: Dole or Doldrums?
Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
London Life and Labour, conducted between 1928 and 1931. I use this data to analyse the relationship between unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662253