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-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed … effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find 12-28 percent effects on average wages. The wage effect mostly reverses …
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that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raises income uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains …
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who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
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probit estimation process. We find that, for men, the effect of income on health status is positive and significant for wage …The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners and monthly profits of the self-employed workers. This paper uses …
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to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self …-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a standard income regression with controls for age, education, family status …, family background and place of residence. By construction of a ratio between the actual and the predicted income we identify …
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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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We propose a theory-based adjustment to the labor income share to correct for the self-employment bias. Through a two …-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We …
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This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the raising of the minimum school leaving age. Each instrument estimates a 'local average treatment...
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The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importance of activity and frequency of use in these various data sources. We find...
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This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a quot;Realized Matchesquot; procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...
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