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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014
credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on … private transfers among poor households. Thus the creation of small businesses tends to be more responsive to the opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335903
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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - 2005
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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The making of a manager: Evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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Math matters: Education choices and wage inequality
Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014
SBTC is a powerful mechanism in explaining the increasing gap between educated and uneducated wages. However, SBTC cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group inequality by showing that the top decile earners'...
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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: The case of Italian collective bargaining
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across collective agreements within the same sector and geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in...
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Technological change and the Swedish labor market
Graetz, Georg - 2020
This report takes stock of recent research into the effects of technology on the labor market; assesses to what extent the Swedish labor market has been affected by technological change in the past three decades, in particular with respect to the themes highlighted by the research; and draws...
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High discounts and low fundamental surplus: An equivalence result for unemployment fluctuations
Mitra, Indrajit; Seo, Taeuk; Xu, Yu - 2021
Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they call the "fundamental surplus." However, their analysis ignores risk premia, a force that Hall (2017) shows is important in understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how...
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When workers' skills become unbundled: Some empirical consequences for sorting and wages
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...
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