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nature of wages by using 2- stage least squares. Tests for and control of selection bias are achieved using methods based on …
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-urban divides, forms of migrant labour, rapid rural-urban migration, and high and rising real wages in the formal sector, the two …
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Easterlin's relative income hypothesis projects for smaller cohorts increasing wages, increasing fertility and … female net wages therefore stimulate female labor supply. The example of Sweden shows that pronatalist policies can be …
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An analysis of hourly pay that allows for the choice of whether to work full-time, part-time or not at all (using the 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and...
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residential location (housing prices) and commutes workers must be paid the same wages and only wage premia arising from ….S. Decennial Census. We find that wages are higher when an individual works in a location that has more workers or a greater … productivity. Extended model specifications suggest that wages increase with the education level of nearby workers and the …
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How valuable is formal education for entrepreneurs’ income relative to employees’? And if the income returns to formal education are different for entrepreneurs vis-à-vis employees, what might be a plausible explanation? To explore these questions, we analyze a large representative US...
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the...
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We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched … worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human … capital characteristics, returns to education and experience are much higher for the upper wages. Participation in on …
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cross-sectional data, suggest that market access has a positive and statistically significant effect on wages, although this …
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