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This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 inPoland. The increase was similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wageinequality during the 1980s. Using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey, we find thisincrease to be associated...
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Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...
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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...
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Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials amongreligious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligioussocieties like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examiningthe differences in the...
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Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...
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Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the averagewage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack ofdetailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newlyavailable data for...
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How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data...
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as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …
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In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of nativeworkers. Existing studies have … developed countries has a significantly negative effect onthe wages of native workers at the workplace - also when controlling …
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