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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2014
Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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A Comparison of Panel Data Models in Estimating Technical Efficiency
Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it compares the performance of various panel data models in estimating technical efficiency in production. Second, it applies various stochastic frontier panel data models to estimate the technical efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to...
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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts
Devicienti, Francesco - 2016
This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...
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The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family : Evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
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Yuan and Roubles : Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn - 2015
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
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Re-Defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants : Evidence from Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014
measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …
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The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation : Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia
Ananyev, Mikhail - 2020
Deferred payments, as implicit contracts, are predicted to bind workers to firms as long as workers believe that firms adhere to these implicit contracts. We employ a unique personnel data set from a Russian manufacturing firm to investigate whether wage arrears, delayed payments of wages,...
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition : A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2021
Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but … and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia …
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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
but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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