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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...

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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination

Jolliffe, Dean - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …

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Gender Voice and Correlations with Peace

Dworkin, Terry Morehead; Schipani, Cindy A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

The statistics regarding violence in today’s society are staggering. A newly released study published by the World Health Organization, making headlines in the Wall Street Journal (Oct. 3, 2002) reports that “Violence Took 1.6 Million Lives in 2000.” Notably, this report considers only the...

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Does Market Liberalisation Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986—1998

Jolliffe, Dean; Campos, Nauro F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

this is largely explained by a matching decline in “Oaxaca's discrimination,” suggesting extraordinary improvement of women …

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The Impact of Capital Measurement Error Correction on Firm-Level Production Function Estimation

Lizal, Lubomir; Galuščák, Kamil - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2012

Based on a large panel of Czech manufacturing firms, we estimate firm-level production functions in 2003–2007 using the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) and Wooldridge (2009) approaches, correcting for the measurement error in capital. We show that measurement error plays a significant role in the...

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The Impact of Capital Measurement Error Correction on Firm-Level Production Function Estimation

Lizal, Lubomir; Galuščák, Kamil - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2012

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

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Social Policies and Structures: Institutional Frictions and Traps in the Czech Republic After 1989

Vecernik, Jere - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

This paper compares the standard economic and a complementary socio-economic approach to the transition. While the economic approach looks at social problems from the outside and views them as costs of transition, the socio-economic approach looks at these problems from the inside and views them...

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Czech Social Reform/Non-reform: Routes, Actors and Problems

Vecernik, Jiri - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

In this contribution, the author first considers the characteristics of the Czechoslovak communist welfare state and its theoretical alternatives. Throughout the reform process, dependency on both corporatist and socialist regimes won out, while residualist efforts were promoted in the...

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