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The new grand bourgeoisie under post-communism
Szelényi, Iván - 2010
, and politics are in command. -- post-socialism ; transitional economies ; wealth ; privatization ; bourgeoisie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661801
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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018
We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947049
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Industrial agglomeration in Myanmar
Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda; Zille, Helge - 2019
Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private … manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …. Value added gains, however, are not transferred to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …
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Firm exit and armed conflict in Colombia
Camacho, Andriana; Rodríguez, Catherine - 2010
This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over entrepreneurial activity in Colombia. Using a fixed effect estimation methodology at the plant level and controlling for the possible endogeneity of armed conflict through the use of instrumental...
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy : Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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The minimum wage and firm networks : evidence from South Africa
Tan, Brandon Joel - 2021
There is a large literature on the minimum wage focused on directly exposed firms and geographies. This paper provides new evidence that the minimum wage has significant spillover effects on firms exposed to the minimum wage indirectly via firm supply chains. Using administrative firm-level tax...
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs...
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Watts happening to work? : the labour market effects of South Africa's electricity crisis
Bhorat, Haroon; Köhler, Timothy - 2024
Frequent electricity outages threaten to impede the benefits of expanded access achieved by many developing countries in recent decades. A large literature documents these negative effects, however almost none consider labour market effects. This paper merges labour force survey microdata with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519338
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Sheepskin effects and heterogenous wage-setting behaviour : evidence from Mozambique
Jaeger, David A.; Jones, Sam - 2024
different kinds of firms. We propose a simple model of wage-setting in which productivity is only partially observable in some … firms and fully observable in others. In this setting, education serves both to enhance productivity and as a productivity … signal. Consistent with the theory, positions where productivity is likely to be less observable offer larger sheepskin …
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The travails of unification : East Germany's economic transition since 1989
Maier, Charles S. - 2010
The former German Democratic Republic underwent a unique post-communist transition because it was absorbed into the wealthy Federal Republic of Germany and has received massive subsidies. Nonetheless, serious difficulties have persisted, including higher unemployment, rapid deindustrialization,...
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