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Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors

Winters, John V.; Xu, Weineng - 2013

Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine geographic differences in both absolute earnings and relative earnings for economic majors. We...

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Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China

Ma, Yuanyuan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2013

The dual-track approach for transition would have to be facilitated by an endogenous movement of workers away from the state into private jobs. Yet, using the Chinese Household Income Project Series (CHIPs) data for the year 2002, we document preferences and premiums for state jobs in urban...

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Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Finland

Fornaro, Paolo - 2018

Immigrant entrepreneurship is the subject of a prolific economic literature, as well as a source of wide public debate. This is because the participation of immigrants to the business community can provide a significant contribution to innovation and to market dynamics. This report touches...

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Gender pay gap in Poland

Grajek, Michal - 2001

The gender pay gap under central planning and its changes in the course of transition have only lately attracted the attention of researchers. Only few papers focused on comparison between two economic regimes, pre and post reform, having reported narrowing gap for all East European countries....

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Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees around the World

Gindling, T. H.; Mossaad, Nadwa; Newhouse, David - 2016

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: Non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...

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Életpálya-kereseti profilok és keresetingadozás

Gábor, István R. - 2008

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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Work and health in Switzerland: Immigrants and natives

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002

This paper is concerned with a comparison of immigrants and Swiss citizens with respect to level of education, labor market outcomes and healthcare utilization. The evidence is based on data for 1999 from the first wave of the Swiss Household Panel. In order to control for confounding...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters: Levels and trends

Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...

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Analysis of determinants of work performance for seafarers based on Fuzzy Electre Model

Massami, Erick P.; Manyasi, Malima M. - In: Journal of Shipping and Trade (JST) 6 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20

Nowadays, most shipping companies are aware of the importance of analysing seafarers' work performance. Thus, improving … seafarers' work performance or finding out the ways by which seafarers' work performance can be enhanced is becoming one of the …, we use literature review and experts' opinions to identify determinants of workplace performance for seafarers working …

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