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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare … conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job … mobility within Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777141
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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 … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761863
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Full-time Schooling, Part-time Schooling, and Wages: Returns and Risks in Portugal
Andini, Corrado; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The standard wage equation proposed by Mincer (1974) assumes that individuals start working after leaving school, which is not the actual case for many people. Using longitudinal data on Portuguese male workers, former working students, we estimate the total impact of an additional year of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233737
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A Dynamic Mincer Equation with an Application to Portuguese Data
Andini, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic approach offers an explanation why the return to schooling in terms of observed earnings is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703197
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700973
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294836
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Linking Individuals and Societies
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039644
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703470
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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model
Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
When a society overthrows a ruler – call the ruler Caesar – what determines whether Caesar is killed or enslaved? This paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power. The model pertains to societies which value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822039