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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268676
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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … labor earnings increased substantially from 1988 to 1996. A common view is that the reallocation of workers from a public … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262743
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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South-south migration: the impact of Nicaraguan immigrants on earnings, inequality and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2008
the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268669
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The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development
Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289844
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Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
Andersen, Torben M.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003
In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods trade. Easier goods trading is equivalent to increased mobility of employment across countries and thus a change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262101
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Product Market Integration, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
2001
Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labour mobility, it may have important effects for labour markets by increasing the mobility of jobs. This creates both opportunities through exports and threats from imports. Is there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262484
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262438
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Immigrant labour market assimilation and arrival effects: evidence from the UK labour force survey
Clark, Ken; Lindley, Joanne - 2006
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267990