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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-provincial inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2016

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in …

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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? : evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data

Ning, Guangjie - 2010

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …

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Education expansion and income inequality : empirical evidence from China

Hu, Xiaoshan; Wan, Guanghua; Zuo, Congmin - 2023

variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of …

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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market : does the origin of human capital matter?

Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...

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International migration and the economics of language

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014

This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the...

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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - 2015

This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...

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Pay period and the distributional effect of education on earnings : evidence from recentered influence function

Donath, Livini; Morrissey, Oliver; Owens, Trudy - 2021

This paper employs Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions to examine the distributional effect of education on earnings in East Africa, using data from the Living Standards and Measurement Study (LSMS) for Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. Taking into consideration the pay period of the...

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Between-group inequality may decline despite a rising skill premium

Aziz, Imran; Cortes, Guido Matias - 2021

A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the share of skilled workers are changing, however, the between-skill-group component of inequality may...

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Evidence of returns to schooling in Africa from household surveys : monitoring and restructuring the market for education

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

Wage-differentials by education of men and women are examined from African household surveys to suggest private wage returns to schooling. It is commonly asserted that returns are highest at primary school levels and decrease at secondary and postsecondary levels, whereas private returns in six...

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