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This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
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integration of rural migrants into the urban labor market has become an essential economic issue in today's China. In the context … of economic reforms, policies affecting migration in continental China have been redefined, which therefore greatly …
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The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … different dimensions considered. My results show that there has been a significant increase in inequality in China between 1997 …
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