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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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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania : from planned equality to market inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 10, pp. 1-27
. This paper analyzes both gender and occupational wage gaps before and during the first years of the transition to a market …
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Changes in occupational demand structure and their impact on individual wages
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2011
This paper estimates wage losses arising due to changes in the structure of demand for occupations. The data on occupational changes made for the sake of adjustment to the changes in the demand structure come from the German reunification of 1990. Endogenous occupational changes are instrumented...
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A detailed decomposition of changes in wage inequality in reunified post-transition Germany 1999 - 2006
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
transition process in the first decade after reunification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824279
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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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Earnings inequality and transition : a regional analysis of Poland
Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2002
In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994 … relationship between earnings inequality and the stage of transition across regions remains when we apply an infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406678
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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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When opportunity knocks: confronting theory and empirics about dynamics of gender wage inequality
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2021
structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We … find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant … market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415093
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Switching models with self-selection : self-employment in Hungary
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Yap; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
transition from socialism to greater market orientation. We adopt a (full information) MLE methodology in addition to Heckman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577307