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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings: what can we learn from Russia?
Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
a substantial scale, using the Russian labour market as a test case. The increase in wage inequality in Russia during … transition. Russia also has much the largest incidence of wage arrears. Given data on wages and the incidence of wage arrears we … results suggest that conventional measures of earnings dispersion in Russia would be some 20 to 30% lower in the absence of …
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The Occupational Mobility of Female Workers: An Empirical Analysis
Grimes, Paul W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
Data from three supplemental mobility surveys conducted jointly with the Current Population Survey (CPS) in 1973, 1978, and 1981, were analyzed to investigate the determinants of occupational change by female workers in the American labor force. Results suggest that occupationally mobile female...
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Does Government Health Insurance Reduce Job Lock and Job Push?
Barkowski, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
I study job lock and job push, the twin phenomena believed to be caused by employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence on employment for health insurance, I estimate...
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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia
Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision? This paper uses exogenous home country exchange rate shocks arising from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to distinguish return motivations of a national sample of Australian...
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Demokratie , öffentliche Güter und Europa
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The rise of the extreme poles in the European political Spectrum, corresponds currently with a clear call for help by the site of simple People, combined with the desire for a serious confrontation with the tragic impasse reproduced by the extreme Problems of the everyday live . In this case,...
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The Art of Survival: Kyrgyz Labor Migration, Human Capital, and Social Networks
Vinokurov, Evgeny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
choice of destination and job. That labor has freedom of movement is essential to Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the Belarus-Kazakhstan-Russia …
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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia
Wesselbaum, Dennis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper estimates a stylized search and matching model on data for Australia covering the period 1978-2008. Using Bayesian methods we find that the model does a fairly good job in replicating the data. Surprisingly, we find a large value for the worker’s bargaining power and low vacancy...
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Intergenerational Persistence of Industry of Employment in India
Nandi, Tushar K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper studies the intergenerational persistence of industry in India. Using data from a nationally representative sample, we find that 62% young Indian men are employed in the same industry where their fathers are also employed. A set of simulations that assign young men randomly across...
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Modal verbs and politeness strategies in political discourse
Boicu, Ruxandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
ABSTRACT This research consists in the analysis of one of Ashley Mote’s political speeches, from the point of view of the speaker’s use of the modal verbs that contribute to the mitigation or the aggravation of the illocutionary forces released by the speech acts they belong to. The analysis...
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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends on the contribution of youth to national...
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