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main results found in the literature. The wage premium to a year of attained education is smaller than that to required … education. Returns to overeducation are positive but smaller than those to required education. Years of undereducation result in … education, and the estimated coefficients of undereducation are non-significant for many countries. The results also suggest …
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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 both wage premium and unemployment. Second, analysing the occupation/education …
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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 both wage premium and unemployment. Second, analysing the occupation/education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719292
main results found in the literature. The wage premium to a year of attained education is smaller than that to required … education. Returns to overeducation are positive but smaller than those to required education. Years of undereducation result in … education, and the estimated coefficients of undereducation are non-significant for many countries. The results also suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719317
well) might also be related in part to the particular shapes of their experience/earnings profiles. -- education and … differed in size among groups of employees with different degrees of schooling and experience, and if they did, whether the … observed differentials might be related to differences in the respective experience/earnings profiles of those groups. Findings …
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Since 2006, the law has changed in a way that the expected wage of the employers has to be at least the double of the minimum wage. The employers who pay less than this amount to their employees are more likely to be audited by the tax authority. According to my hypothesis this change has...
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The share of female workers is significantly higher i the public than the private sector. This could be due to several reasons: different preferences towards job characteristics, or perhaps to lower discrimination against women in the public sector due to strict wage grids and hiring and...
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
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Emigration has accelerated since 2007 in Hungary. The short history of the new phenomenon called intense political and social reactions. The paper focuses on a particular segment of emigration: on labour emigration of those employed persons who are still connected to the home country and...
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The paper recalculates total factor productivity (TFP) in Hungary, and based on this, presents an updated decomposition of GDP growth. Compared to the previous literature on Hungary, contributions include the quantification of human capital and the inclusion of the capacity utilization of...
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