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The Gender Wage Gap in Bulgaria: A Semiparametric Estimation of Discrimination

Jolliffe, Dean - 2001

Bulgaria's transition to a market economy has coincided with a large increase in wage inequality. Given the emphasis on wage leveling in pre-transition Bulgaria, the rise in wage inequality may be due to managers rewarding more productive workers; or it may be the result of rewarding...

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Assessing the Problem of Human Capital Mismatch in Transition Economies

Druska, Viliam; Jeong, Byeong ju; Kejak, Michal; … - 2002

In transition economies, there may be a significant mismatch between the types of skills that workers possess and the types of skills that the new economy demands. We consider this problem of human capital mismatch along the dimensions of training type (holding the level) and occupation. We...

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The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China's Transitional Labor Markets.

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2002

Chinese urban workers are no longer shielded from market forces. They are bearing the brunt of the adjustment costs as enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China's rapidly changing urban labor environment. The...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2007

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2007

Difference in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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Which entrepreneurs expect to expand their businesses? Evidence from survey data in Lithuania

Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2004

This paper presents an empirical study based on a survey of 399 small and medium size companies in Lithuania. Applying bivariate and ordered probit estimators, we investigate why some business owners intend to expand their firms, while others do not. Our main findings provide evidence that the...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2003

wage premium has been driven mainly by institutional factors during the early period and by productivity and technological … productivity. …

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Returns to Managerial and Technical Competencies of IT Professionals: An Empirical Analysis

Mithas, Sunil - 2004

In this study, we examine the effect of managerial and technical competencies of information technology (IT) professionals on their salaries. Based on a large nationally representative dataset of more than 55,000 IT professionals in the U.S. for the period 1999-2002, we find that both managerial...

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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies 1

Jurajda, ŠtěpÁn; Terrell, Katherine - 2009

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...

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Three essays on the endogenous growth of a regional economy under the impacts of demographic changes

Kim, Tae-Jeong - 2010

results of a one-sector OLG model where agent’s productivity is given exogenously, the simulation result confirms that …, welfare and aggregate productivity. On the contrary, tax and transfer policy inducing international immigrants to invest more … labor productivity statistics. It is intuitive that the supply-demand interactions between the regions should be affected by …

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