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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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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities

Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006

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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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Can capital-skill complementarity explain the rising skill premium in developing countries? Evidence from Peru

Mazumdar, Joy; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2004

The factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries are still not well … the wage bill share and relative wages of skilled labor. This finding is contrary to the commonly held view that …

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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008

In a seminal paper Gibbons and Katz (1991; GK) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layouts than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...

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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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The impact of Mexican immigrants on US wage structure

Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - 2007

areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect … relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card and Lewis' study uses variations across geographies, this paper … relationship between the composition of Mexican immigrants across occupations/industries and average wages in the occupations …

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Risk and Rationality : Uncovering Heterogeneity in Probability Distortion

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr-Duda, Helga; Epper, Thomas - 2009

It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by estimating a finite mixture regression model for three...

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What mean impacts miss: distributional effects of welfare reform experiments

Hoynes, Hilary W.; Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B. - 2005

Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...

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The condition of the working-class in England, 1209-2004

Clark, Gregory - 2005

The paper uses building workers' wages 1209-2004, and the skill premium, to consider the causes and consequences of the … Industrial Revolution. Real wages were trendless before 1800, as would be predicted for the Malthusian era. Comparing wages with … the classic Industrial Revolution and even the arrival of modern democracy in 1689. Building wages also conflict with …

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