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Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...

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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers´ well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...

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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

developments in the estimationand analysis of models with high-dimensional fixed effects. Using wage regressions withcontrols for …

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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis

Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian … workers is more than explained by differences in wage-related characteristics...T …

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The Impact of the Public Sector Pay Review Bodies in the UK

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the Pay Review Bodies (PRBs) on the public sector pay of their remit groups. We compare the real weekly earnings of groups of workers in occupations covered by PRBs, in the remainder of the public sector and in the private sector using LFS data from 1993 to 2006...

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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...

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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 19862003

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects …

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Why Are the Returns to Education Higher forEntrepreneurs than for Employees?

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and takingaccount of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than foremployees (18.3 percent and...

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The Wage Impact of Trade Unionsin the UK Public and Private Sectors

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector …

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