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Returns to schooling in Kazakhstan : OLS and instrumental variables approach
Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper examines rates of return to schooling in Kazakhstan using OLS and instrumental variable (IV) methodologies … underestimate the true rates of return. The results indicate that the returns to schooling in Kazakhstan have increased with … transition. This may reflect the relative scarcities of highly educated people in Kazakhstan with human capital that employers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003500323
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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach
Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010
from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011538
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Economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan
Aldashev, Alisher; Dietz, Barbara - 2012
In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly … should facilitate regional income convergence in Kazakhstan and improve living standards in depressed regions …. -- interregional migration ; Kazakhstan ; gravity model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530312
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Economic returns to speaking the right language(s)? : evidence from Kazakhstan's shift in state language and language of instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434518
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Sometimes, winners lose : economic disparity and indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - 2014
formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408907
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The political economy of Kazakhstan: a case of good economics, bad politics?
Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - 2021
investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? Kazakhstan is a case where an autocratic regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589873
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Welfare evaluation of the 1986 tax reform for married couples in the United States
Picchio, Matteo; Valletta, Giacomo - 2015
This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). In thirty years since its introduction, several studies have analysed the effects of TRA86. However, preference heterogeneity and non-market dimensions of welfare have not been taken into account. We propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346578
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Social security, labor supply and health of older workers: quasi-experimental evidence from a large reform
Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Shurtz, Ity; Weisburd, Sarit - 2020
We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222199
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Transitory earnings opportunities and educational scarring of men
Jósef Sigurdsson - 2023
Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered income taxes to zero for one year and compare teenagers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249834
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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impact of labor market policy reforms
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729413