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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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Informality, education-occupation mismatch, and wages : evidence from India
Bahl, Shweta; Sharma, Ajay - 2023
This article examines the intertwining relationship between informality and education-occupation mismatch (EOM) and the … consequent impact on the workers' wages. In particular, we discuss two issues - first, the relative importance of informality and … analysis reveals that although both informality and EOM are significant determinants of wages, the former is more crucial for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228209
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Estimating the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country : a density discontinuity design approach
Jales, Hugo - 2017
This paper proposes a framework to identify the effects of the mini- mum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wage in a developing country. I show how the discontinuity of the wage distribution around the minimum wage identifies the extent of non-compliance with the minimum wage policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112129
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The dynamics of labour market polarization in Chile : an analysis of the link between technical change and informality
Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023
informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280975
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The more the gloomier : development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey
Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021
distribution. Second, we demonstrate that returns to informality vary significantly across quantiles even after a matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548495
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Pay gaps and mobility for lower and upper tier informal sector employees : an investigation of theTurkish labor market
Duman, Anil - 2020
Many empirical studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. While there is limited amount of research considering the same question in the Turkish labor market, wage gap between formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269077
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Managing the impact of climate on migration : evidence from Mexico
Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2022
environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on migration ows between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2012 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806783
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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers
Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2020
skill premium and increasing inequality. We develop a measure for reshoring activity at the macro-level and, using data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140102
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From elitist to sustainable earnings : is there a group legitimacy in financial flows?
Charles, Aurelie; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018
Elite occupations are characterised by the magnitude of income accumulation which has been particularly exacerbated in the financialisation process. This paper however shows that the cumulative effects on group earnings is a pattern visible across the labour force. The case studies on the US and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131567
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Are there gains to joining a union? : evidence from Mexico
Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector - 2019
Union density in Mexico has been in decline since the 1980s. This paper provides ev- idence on the worker compensation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162013