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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000

Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

We estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania. Nearly constant at about 3-4 percent during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventional earnings regression rises steadily during the 1990s, reaching 8.5 percent by 2000. Our analysis...

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors

Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

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Displacement, Asymmetric Information,<br>and Heterogeneous Human Capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007

In a seminal paper, Gibbons and Katz (1991) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layoffs than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...

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Culture, Human Capital, and the Earnings of West Indian Blacks

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Black immigrants from the British West Indies and their descendants have long held the interest of historians and … allowed them to overcome or at least reduce the ill effects of discrimination on their incomes and well-being, and that … discrimination alone cannot be blamed for the low incomes of American blacks. Although the idea that West Indians have succeeded …

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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Vernon M. Briggs Jr.

Whalen, Charles J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book pays tribute to Vernon Briggs and his enduring mark on the study of humna resources. The chapters, by his students and colleagues, explore and extend his work on employment, education and training, immigration, and local labor markets. Students and scholars of economics, public policy,...

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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets

Hyclak, Thomas; Johnes, Geraint - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of …

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Rising Wage Inequality: The 1980s Experience in Urban Labor Markets

Hyclak, Thomas - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Hyclak examines changes in the structure of wages paid for some 40 different jobs found in four different occupational groups. In addition, he concentrates on the jobs and the skills required as the primary determinant of wages, an approach, he says, that complements the more traditional human...

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Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States

Alpert, William T. (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Alpert and Woodbury present a comprehensive set of explorations into the impacts that the provision of various types of employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial differences between the employee benefits systems of...

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