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Does Background Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital from a Planned to a Market Economy

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force...

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-su - 2002

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the likelihood of employment in Europe as a function of a set of...

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Herd effects or migration networks? The location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance the theory by presenting a framework encompassing both...

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Migration, transfers and child labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...

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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...

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Labor Market Entry and Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Weber, Andrea; … - 2010

This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data set. Further, we investigate the e®ects of labor...

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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Labor market policy in Austria during the crises

Hofer, Helmut; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2013

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Wage growth and inequality change during rapid economic transition

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006

transition, East Germany experienced big increases in both its wage level and wage dispersion. From 1990 to 2000 real wages in …East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western …

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The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997

Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are …

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