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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867074
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Speed and sequencing of transition reforms and income inequality: A panel data analysis
Aristei, David; Perugini, Cristiano - 2011
An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and … concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this paper we analyse the heterogeneous effects of transition reforms on … inequality by explicitly considering their speed and sequencing. To this aim we identify seven transition models in which the 27 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281885
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The Distribution of Wages in Transition Countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262471
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262472
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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262743
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400803
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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Changes in the structure of earnings during the Polish transition
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411426
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Changes in earnings in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Disentangling the forces behind pro-poor change in labour markets
Zepeda, Eduardo; Alarcon, Diana; Soares, Fábio Veras; … - 2009
Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293299
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297527