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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to … education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the … pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant budget sector, rather than to market forces coming into play. Women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261890
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2021
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to … education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the … pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant budget sector, rather than to market forces coming into play. Women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319275
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128718
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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the wiles test
Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763908
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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018
mismatched at the mean of the conditional wages distribution. This paper, instead, observes the heterogeneity of the … over-educated with those who are not. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798113
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
positive/negative local labor market conditions as a factor able to explain choices of investment in human capital. Within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110312
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
positive/negative local labor market conditions as a factor able to explain choices of investment in human capital. Within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149211
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Overeducation wage penalty among Ph.D. holders : an unconditional quantile regression analysis on Italian data
Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2018
Recentered Influence Function. The results reveal that overeducation hits the wages of those Ph.D. holders who are employed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130684
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch based on AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay delivers two main innovations with respect to the existing literature. First, and foremost, by extending the work of Nicaise (2010) relative to the reservation wage to the case of overeducation, we propose a statistical test to discriminate between alternative theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109085
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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224590