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How Damaging Is Part-Time Employment to a Woman's Occupational Prospects?

Prowse, Victoria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to …

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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China’s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy has...

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Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance

Danthine, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

entrepreneurial skills is proposed. It is possible to characterize both the competitive equilibrium and the optimal solution numerically. The competitive equilibrium is shown to be suboptimal. Less-skilled workers and firms are too selective, not matching with their comparable counterparts....

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany – A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently … heterogeneity. The results show considerable differences with respect to these sources of heterogeneity, but the overall finding is …

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Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries

Clark, Andrew; Etilé, Fabrice; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we …

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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the …

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On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity

Belzil, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the … celebrated Mincerian wage regression with skill heterogeneity, non-linearity in schooling, non-separability between the effects … conditioning on unobserved and observed skills. Skill heterogeneity is also found to be over-estimated when non-linearity is …

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Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Pirotte, Alain - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

ignoring heterogeneity due to the individual effects, using Monte Carlo experiments. In addition, we check the performance of …

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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment

Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We apply a semi-parametric latent variable model to estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial sorting gains under the traditional system, but...

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