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Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of workers in Danish … manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsourcing affect wages as predicted by the theory. …
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We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …
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While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …
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anecdotal evidence, we found little hard evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed to a fall in wages or a rise …
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This paper examines the influence of adult market wages and having parents who were child labourers on child labour … low adult market wages are key determinants of child labour; a 10 percent increase in the illiterate male market wage …
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effects on worker flows. However, firm performance improves considerably while wages fall. Overall, the results suggest that …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
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of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their up-coming dismissal. The wages …. Strong evidence is found that a longer 'dormant' term of notice leads to higher wages. In my sample, an additional month of … notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus. …
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