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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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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 …
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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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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
authority. According to my hypothesis this change has decreased significantly the amount of envelop wages. My aim is to examine … empirically the difference between conformation of the legal and informal wages and the behaviour of tax evading companies after …
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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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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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, which raised public sector wages by 40 percent in two years time, changing the average public relative wage from a fallback … sector workers within worker-type increases corporate wages by 1.5 percent. The spillover effect is positively correlated … with the public wage premium, with low corporate wages, with occupations which are abundant in the public sector, and …
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