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In this paper, we examine wage inequality and wage differentials in Croatia from 1970 to 2008 using two long aggregate … time series on the distribution of income. We focus especially on changing income inequality related to educational and … vocational attainment, changing income inequality within those groups, and how these two components of inequality were affected …
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The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how wages are being determined in China during the reform period. The paper focuses on the development of the regulatory framework since 1978 and proceeds by examining official regulations regarding labor market institutions and wage setting, and by...
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
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We analyse the extent and evolution of informality and inequality in the Serbian labour market between 2002 and 2007 …-oriented reforms. Second, the level of inequality in earnings seems to have remained more or less constant over the period, in contrast … important role in explaining earnings inequality. -- Informal economy ; inequality ; Serbia …
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Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325997
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by the...
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The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city and regional-specific characteristics from other sources. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we...
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Wage inequality is considered to have been quite compressed in socialist economies. In this paper I analyse how men …'s wage inequality has changed during the period of transition to a market economy in Serbia, a country which has experienced …) decomposition methodology and five annual Labour Force Surveys (2001-2005). I find that the change in wage inequality is mostly …
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job earnings inequality for men. A number of different inequality measures are used in our work. The analysis uses data … inequality through an uneven transitional process and identifies factors likely to retain an influence on earnings inequality as …
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