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Ownership and wages : estimating public-private and foreign-domestic differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986 - 2003

Earle, John S. (contributor); Telegdy, Álmos (contributor) - 2007

occupation) and firms (size, industry, and productivity), suggesting ownership type is systematically selected along these …

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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition : evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000

Andren, Daniela (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2004

institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

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Wage adjustment and productivity shocks

Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between …

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Firm heterogeneity in skill returns

Böhm, Michael; Esmkhani, Khalil; Gallipoli, Giovanni - 2023

We quantify firm heterogeneity in skill returns and present direct evidence of worker–firm complementarities. Within a model of firms' demand for cognitive and noncognitive attributes we show that identification depends on the availability of skill measures. Linking administrative data to test...

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A detailed decomposition of changes in wage inequality in reunified post-transition Germany 1999 - 2006

Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a decade after reunification. For that purpose, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1999 - 2006, and implement the decomposition methodologies of...

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Gender-specific occupational segregation, glass ceiling effects, and earnings in managerial positions : results of a fixed effects model

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...

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Voluntary work and wages

Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano F. G. - 2014

The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...

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Resolving the public sector wage premium puzzle by indirect inference

Minford, Patrick; Wang, Yi; Zhou, Peng - 2017

This paper investigates the public sector wage premium in the UK using a microfounded eco-nomic model and indirect inference. The neoclassical wage determination model is tested and estimated without introducing any gap between the theoretical and empirical models. To test if the model is true,...

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Selection bias and the decomposition of wage differentials

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

The major contribution of this paper is finding a new and general approach to decomposing log-wage differentials when selection effects are present. We divide the observed log-wage differentials between two groups into 1) differentials in predicted log-wages computed using observed individual...

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