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The human capital heterogeneity at the Russian labor market

Gleb, Borisov - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2005

-random distribution of unobservable skills across the population of a transition country. At the beginning of the transition, people who …. This results in the differences in unobservable abilities and earnings capacity of people. We argue that cohort, a pre-transition … occupation, an urban place of birth, and nationality might serve as proxies for unobservable skills in the transition. The cohort …

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Segmented Life-cycle Labor Markets – Portuguese Evidence

Martins, Ana Paula - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011

The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate – net of depreciation – of...

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Segmented Life-cycle Labor Markets

Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 55 (2012) 1, pp. 39-74

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WHICH HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS FOR RICH AND POOR'S WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED WORKER-FIRM DATA FROM TUNISIA

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. We develop a new method based on multivariate analysis of firm characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in...

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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages?Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - DIAL - 2004

(français) Nous analysons les rendements du capital humain à partir de données liées employeurs-employés collectées en Tunisie en 1999 et indiquons comment ces rendements diffèrent de ceux généralement obtenus dans les pays industrialisés avec ce type de données. Nous développons une...

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Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap: Does Labour Force Attachment Really Matter? Evidence from Matched Labour Force and Biographical Surveys in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2005

(english) Differences in labour force attachment across gender are important to explain the extent of the gender earnings gap. However, measures of women's professional experience are particularly prone to errors given discontinuity in labour market participation. For instance, the classical...

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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the industrial countries usually studied with matched data. We...

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Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap: Does Labour Force Attachment Really Matter? Evidence from Matched Labour Force and Biographical Surveys in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005

Assessing gender inequalities has become one of the key issues of the new international poverty reduction strategies implemented in most LDCs in the past few years. It has been argued that differences in labour force attachment across gender are important to explain the extent of the gender...

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HUMAN CAPITAL AND WAGES IN TWO LEADING INDUSTRIES OF TUNISIA: EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED WORKER-FIRM DATA

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2005

From Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999, we study the returns to human capital for workers observed in two leading manufacturing sectors. Workers in the mechanical and electrical industries (IMMEE) benefit from higher returns to human capital than their counterparts in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731231

WHICH HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS FOR RICH AND POOR'S WAGES? EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED WORKER-FIRM DATA FROM TUNISIA

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2005

In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. This reveals us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia may differ from the industrial countries usually studied with matched...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731270

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