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Returns to Education and Rural Migrant Wage Differentials in China : IV Quantile Treatment Effects
Messinis, George - 2014
This article presents new evidence on urban-rural migrant wage differentials of workers in full-time employment in China. It utilises a nationally representative data set, recent matching techniques, and IV estimation methods to evaluate conditional and unconditional quantile treatment effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048659
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003
change during the late transition period, and reinforced by market adjustment of wage ratio to the true differences in labor …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261607
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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 1999
than only in parts of) the transition period, and (4) ability to keep the long term unemployed at relatively low levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044937
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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?
Munich, Daniel - 2010
than only in parts of) the transition period, and (4) ability to keep the long term unemployed at relatively low levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149069
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Employment Determination in Enterprises Under Communism and in Transition : Evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - 2006
The authors present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they moved from … transition. For the most part, firms appear to have been quick to adjust employment to wage levels, and there is little evidence … of labor hoarding. There were important cross-country variations in the determinants of employment during the reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028069
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Variations in the wage returns to a first degree : evidence from the British cohort study 1970
Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor);  … - 2005
"As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002902295
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Variations in the Wage Returns to a First Degree : Evidence from the British Cohort Study 1970
Bratti, Massimiliano; Naylor, Robin; Smith, Jeremy - 2021
As in many other countries, government policy in the UK has the objective of raising the participation rate of young people in higher education, while increasing the share of the costs of higher education paid by students themselves. A rationale for the latter element comes from evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318473
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Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design
Hirsch, Barry T.; Mehay, Stephen L. - 2021
A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty service are estimated using the 1986 and 1992 Reserve Components Surveys, which permit a matched comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320702
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Temporary help work: Compensating differentials and multiple job-holding
Hamersma, Sarah; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R. - 2012
importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287670
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709811