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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization : Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - 2021
the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The …
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2021
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
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The Political Economy of Privatization: Why Do Governments Want Reforms?
Boerner, Kira - 2004
International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too … little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state …-owned firm. Different government types are compared to identify the political and institutional determinants of privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324980
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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing
Monteiro, Natália P. - 2010
We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144082
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Fossen, Frank M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099751
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India's Increasing Skill Premium : Role of Demand and Supply
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven mostly by younger age groups, while older age groups have not experienced any significant...
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Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Böhm, Michael J. - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
Lin, Dajun - 2016
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...
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Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous human capital formation and multidimensionality of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur, workers self-select...
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