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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884151
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212567
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604099
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168439
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959547
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Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality. Empirical analysis of firms' production functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325440
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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353425
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632739