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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - 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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The skill balancing act: Determinants of and returns to balanced skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
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Skilled or educated? : educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our identification strategy exploits differential exposure to educational reforms across birth cohorts and countries. We find that education has the strongest earnings effect. A one...
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Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across … a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271753
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The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950 - 2000
Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - 2004
in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition-specific accounts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287993
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Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition : A Case Study of Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - 2004
The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262151
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The impact of the transition and EU membership on the returns to schooling in Europe
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023
education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition countries in Europe and Central Asia are analyzed using panel data analysis and … difference-in-difference methods to estimate the impact of transition and EU accession. It is found that the transition from a …
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