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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Campos, Nauro F.; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure to reduce sample selection bias. Our evidence is from consistently coded, non-retrospective data...

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Crises, What Crises?

Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763747

Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...

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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...

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Poverty and Survival

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data...

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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that those obtaining an urban hukou have better labour market...

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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

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Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate

Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia

Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...

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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umana-Aponte, Marcela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

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