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Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations differed in size among groups of employees with different...
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Using a substitution property of worker’s types (productivity and time preference), we propose an explanation for both … fixed-wages and wage differentials. Fixed-wages result in bunching at the optimum. Equally productive workers with different … time preference accept different wages. …
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Published as an article in: Moneda y Crédito (2004), 219, pp.: 43-68.
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We investigate the effect of compulsory military service on wages in Hungary. We use administrative social security … data and difference-in-difference strategy to estimate how the conscription in 2003 and 2004 affected the wages of soldiers … increase of productivity. Instead we argue that workers were discriminated before conscription or the match value was very low …
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standard deviation of average gross monthly wages between districts is reduced to one third. These results underline the role …
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In the labour markets that gather few companies to compete for many workers, the economic theory predicts the existence of monopsony rents. It should also be the case of the Spanish soccer industry. However, the clubs of this league do not profit from the expected rents. The purpose of this...
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In this study standard Mincer earnings equations are estimated using both ordinary least squares (OLS) and quantile regression in order to give a comprehensive picture of the returns to education in Germany and Hungary for the year 2000. To make the cross-country comparison of the returns to...
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By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
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The paper examines the labour-market position of persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary. First, using simple labour-market indicators and international-comparison data, we find that persons with the higher-education diploma in Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of...
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Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations differed in size among groups of employees with different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494689