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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004

Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …

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The returns to English-language skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set - the India Human Development Survey, 2005 - to …

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Selling labor low : wage responses to productivity shocks in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - In: Journal of political economy 114 (2006) 3, pp. 538-575

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Self-control at work

Kaur, Supreet; Kremer, Michael; Mullainathan, Sendhil - In: Journal of political economy 123 (2015) 6, pp. 1227-1277

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The impact of Indian job guarantee scheme on labor market outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment

Azam, Mehtabul - 2012

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …

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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...

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On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity

Belzil, Christian - 2004

Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage regression with skill heterogeneity,...

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Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design

Mehay, Stephen L.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty service are estimated using the 1986 and 1992 Reserve Components Surveys, which permit a matched comparison...

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Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

Connolly, Helen; Gottschalk, Peter - 2004

It is widely acknowledged that earnings subsidies promote employment by increasing rewards to labor market activity. This paper asks whether subsidies also affect job duration and wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies causal links between earnings subsidies, job...

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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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