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Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?

Wang, Le - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to promote higher standards of living as well as to reduce inequality. However, little is known about...

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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

Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...

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When Does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper suggests an analytical framework to analyse the joint evolution of female participation and wages across countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of which Belarus is a particular case. In CEE, female participation has reduced relatively more...

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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU: What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more...

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Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition: A Case Study of Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work experience flat, like they supposedly were under central-planning. However, the first available estimates of...

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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case...

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

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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 … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?

Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …

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