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Measuring the Shadow Economy : Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation
Lichard, Tomas - 2012
We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying assumptions as previous estimators based on microeconomic data. The standard identifying assumption that the self-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do...
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Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia
Kahanec, Martin - 2014
This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU … labor market conditions in receiving countries and Slovakia. We show that besides the standard demographic factors …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052191
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Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs : Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Mytna Kurekova, Lucia - 2015
job offers posted online in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.The results show that the student labour market is quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016348
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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131924
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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
Lamo, Ana - 2010
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136774
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Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries : Quantile Regression Approach
Staneva, Anita - 2010
This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by Buchinsky (2001), which is based on a Newey (1991,...
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Post-Socialist International Migration : The Case of China-to-South Korea Ethnic Labour Migration
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the post-socialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. Over the past decade, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority...
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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139933
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings : A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2011
While results are starting to emerge, not much is known yet about the dynamics of the labor markets of the former Eastern economies, especially in the context of the current Financial Crisis. Arguably, this is mainly due to paucity of (panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117835
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276