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Education, Sex and Income Inequality in Soviet-type Socialism

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

Kyn. The paper compares the empirical evidence on actual income distribution in Czechoslovakia and Poland with normative … between men and women is not. The empirical data for Czechoslovakia and Poland show that income differentials based on … education still persist, although they were at least in Czechoslovakia significantly reduced. In both Czechoslovakia and Poland …

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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125045

College Quality and the Wages of Young Men

Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996

Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications. Controlling for ability reveals that sorting of...

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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...

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Education, Labour Supply and Market Development in Rural Peru

Laszlo, Sonia - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage-dependent and labour supply parameters. Geographic...

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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - EconWPA - 2004

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising.Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Poland's Participation in ERM II

Borowski, Jakub; Brzezina, Michal Brzoza-; Szpunar, Piotr - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we address some of the issues resulting from Poland's will to join the Economic and Monetary Union. Our …-Samuelson effect for Poland are provided. …

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Trends in East European Factor Productivity

Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005

the rate of technical change for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. Although the pooling eliminated … Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania and somewhat lower, but still respectable (3 - 5 per cent) in the case of Poland and Hungary. It … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …

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Some benefits of reducing inflation in transition economies

Blaszkiewicz, Monika; Konieczny, Jerzy; Myslinskaa, Anna; … - EconWPA - 2003

We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the …

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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe

Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002

Republic, Hungary and Poland during the period August 1997 – May 2001. I find that neither exchange rates nor interest rates …

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