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A túl- és az alulképzés bérhozama 25 országban
Galasi, Péter (contributor) - 2008
By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719317
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The effect of educational mismatch on wages for 25 countries
Galasi, Péter (contributor) - 2008
By making use of the Duncan&Hoffman model, the paper estimates returns to educational mismatch using comparable microdata for 25 European countries. Our aim is to investigate the extent to which the main empirical regularities produced by other papers on the subject are confirmed by our data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739720
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Is informality bad? : evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …. The dual nature of the informal sector emerges from our results. In the high-tier segment, self-employed workers receive a … distribution, both informal wage earners and independent (own account) workers face significant earnings penalties vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936721
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What do we know about contracting out in the United States? : Evidence from household and establishment surveys
Dey, Matthew S.; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne E. - 2009
A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921820
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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158055
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The determinants of regional disparities in skill segregation : evidence from a cross section of German regions
Schlitte, Frisco; Böttcher, Fabian; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2010
-skilled workers in corresponding regional labour markets. -- regional labour markets ; skill segregation ; human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009161858
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Causal returns to schooling and individual heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545261
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey : evidence from individual level data
Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529580
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531984
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: 15.2.2012
This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492405