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This article uses the Hungerford and Solon Test [1987] for calculating the sheepskin effect of returns from education in the Colombian labour market in 2000. It was found that secondary school graduates enjoyed 13% returns whilst a university degree led to 17% returns. The Hungerford and Solon...
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We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994) assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers' productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, taxes, labor costs and profits during and after the transition, up until the shock is fully absorbed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494671
The paper investigates exit probabilities of registered unemployed to active labour market programmes using administrative records from the unemployment register of the Hungarian National Labour Centre. We estimate parametric duration models that summarise variation in exit probabilities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494686
The low level of job search is a unique feature of the Hungarian labour market compared to other former communist … countries. The paper looks at search intensity among the non-employed using micro-data of the European Labour Force Survey. A … are registered look for jobs actively. While registration practices and job search among the registered unemployed differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494695
Based on the microbased panel datasets of the Labour Force Survey between 1998 and 2010 and the administrative Pension Fund data between 2000 and 2006 we analyse the number, composition and subsequent labour market behaviour of former public sector employees in Hungary. We show that the greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494735
In this study we explore the job search behavior of the unemployed using 16 waves of Labor Force Survey between 2010 … likelihood that he search for a job through public employment office and it reduces the probability of the usage of all other … search methods. We found that reservation wage and the sub-regional average wage affect the search intensity positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785045
The paper investigates exit probabilities of registered unemployed to active labour market programmes using administrative records from the unemployment register of the Hungarian National Labour Centre. We estimate parametric duration models that summarise variation in exit probabilities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729262
We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994) assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers’ productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, taxes, labor costs and profits during and after the transition, up until the shock is fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435315
The low level of job search is a unique feature of the Hungarian labour market compared to other former communist … countries. The paper looks at search intensity among the non-employed using micro-data of the European Labour Force Survey. A … are registered look for jobs actively. While registration practices and job search among the registered unemployed differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919789
Based on the microbased panel datasets of the Labour Force Survey between 1998 and 2010 and the administrative Pension Fund data between 2000 and 2006 we analyse the number, composition and subsequent labour market behaviour of former public sector employees in Hungary. We show that the greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009719062