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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002
wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125714
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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil
Arcand, Jean-Louis; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil. Our results suggest that sheepskin effects take the traditional form of an additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125740
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Market Forces and Sex Discrimination
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - EconWPA - 1998
We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to … strongest finding is that among plants with high levels of product market power, those that employ relatively more women are … sex discrimination in wages in the short run in markets where plants have product market power. We also examine evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408292
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Ingresos y Microempresarias en Chile
Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005
Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408343
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Ingresos y Microempresarias
Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005
Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408381
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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries
O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005
This paper looks at youth labour market trends concentrating on developing and transition countries. Questions relating to the integration of young people into decent work have in recent times once again begun to occupy a central position in Government Policy issues. Recently co-ordinated...
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'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium
Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002
their labor to the highest bidder. The stationary equilibrium has both technology dispersion \226 different wages due to … different job qualities, and contract dispersion \226 different wages due to different market experiences for workers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126186
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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker … structure of the data. The workers with low wages or low conditional wages experience greater returns to human capital than … intra-firm externality on wages. Therefore, a given worker would be more productive and better paid in an environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408310
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004
different productivities or skills, are employed by firms offering wages that depend both on the agents’ individual skill level …
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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556770