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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. Before conscription, the soldiers earned 20 percent...
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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. Before conscription, the soldiers earned 20 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254058
Published as an article in: Moneda y Crédito (2004), 219, pp.: 43-68.
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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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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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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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sector due to strict wage grids and hiring and promotional practices. Lower discrimination may manifest itself in the gender … - discrimination appears through alternative channels. The results suggest that the public sector gender wage gap is significant, but 7 …, while their chances appear to be more equal in the public sector. -- public and private sector ; gender wage gap ; vertical …
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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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Our paper examines the possible role of enterprise surveys in the forecasting of labour market processes. Based on two enterprise surveys with large samples we examine to what extent are enterprises, differing in their size, sales revenues, ownership structure and markets, capable to predict...
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