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Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into …

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Switching Models with Self-Selection: Self-Employment in Hungary

Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1999

We estimate the determinants of earnings for both the self-employed and wage/salary sectors in an economy undergoing transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman's two-step method, while taking both participation...

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Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703219

Labour Market Trends during Post-Socialist Transformation: The Cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Russia

Porras, Laila - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 4

The paper analyzes the factors behind the evolution of employment and wages during the first decade of post …-socialist transformation. It focuses on three countries: Hungary, Russia and the Czech Republic. We propose an explanation of the development …

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Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Vakhitov, Vladimir - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 2006

This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …

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Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market

Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 2 (2004) 3, pp. 185-205

An urban labour market is in the process of being formed in China. The objective of this paper is to analyse the stage that it has reached. A 1999 household survey is used to investigate whether the labour market has three tiers comprised of recently retrenched and re-employed urban workers,...

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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …

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How Does Privatization Affect Workers? The Case of the Russian Mass Privatization Program

Brainerd, Elizabeth - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

hours worked across sectors. Evidence also indicates that newly privatized state enterprises pay higher wages than state … similar throughout the period. Higher wages in privatized firms likely reflects rent-sharing between workers and managers …

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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...

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Wages, Layoffs, and Privatization: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

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