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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 is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained …
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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 is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763493
importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287670
The gender earnings differential in Russia 2000-02 is examined using a nationally representative household survey. Adjusted for hours worked, women’s monthly earnings are 62% of men’s, and women’s long-run effective wage is 69% of men’s. While women’s higher human capital endowments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004965284
This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012656060
This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662676
Temporary Help Services (THS) employment has been growing in size, particularly among disadvantaged workers. An extended policy debate focuses on the low earnings, limited benefits, and insecurity that such jobs appear to provide. We investigate the earnings and wage differentials observed...
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trends in wellbeing.  If the rise in wages that followed the Black Death enticed female servants to delay marriage, it …
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The subject of this paper consist in theoretical study on the labor market. In view to acomplish the mentioned … facilitate the labor market facts. For this purpose is laid together a set of conceptual definitions, thus describing the labor … market content and sphere. The labor market’s organizing and working, seen as a complex system, a conglomerate of markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647442
importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570792