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Migration and firm-level productivity
Fabling, Richard; Maré, David Christopher; Stevens, Philip - 2022
We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity, wages and workforce composition. Jointly estimating production functions and firm- level wage bill equations, we compare migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens...
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Toothless reforms? : the remarkable stability of female labor force participation in a top-reforming country
Pignatti, Norberto; Torosyan, Karine; Chitanava, Maka - 2016
Low Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) constitutes a foregone opportunity at both the macro and at the micro levels, potentially increasing the vulnerability of households and lowering the long-run development perspectives of a country. Most international organizations and national policy...
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400803
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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Earnings inequality and transition : a regional analysis of Poland
Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2002
In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 … relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure …
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Changes in the structure of earnings during the Polish transition
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411426
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When opportunity knocks: confronting theory and empirics about dynamics of gender wage inequality
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2021
structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We … find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant … market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor …
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The impact of the transition and EU membership on the returns to schooling in Europe
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023
education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition countries in Europe and Central Asia are analyzed using panel data analysis and … difference-in-difference methods to estimate the impact of transition and EU accession. It is found that the transition from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317713
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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies
Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999
are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …
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The relevance of post-match LTC : why has the Spanish labor market become as volatile as the US one?
Sala, Hector (contributor); Silva, José Ignacio (contributor) - 2005
We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the stylized facts characterizing the US and the Spanish labor markets. Under this benchmark, we find the Post-Match Labor Turnover Costs (PMLTC) to be the centerpiece to explain why the...
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