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Returns to education in four transition countries: Quantile regression approach

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Murphy, Philip D. - 2010

This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by Buchinsky (2001), which is based on a Newey (1991,...

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Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2003

In this paper we analyze the pattern of employment adjustment using a rich panel of Norwegian plants. The data suggest that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment changes is inversely related to plant size. We develop and estimate a simple ?q? model of labor demand, allowing for the...

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Intergenerational Mobility : Trends Across the Earnings Distribution

Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - 2005

The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be lower at the lower end of the earnings distribution than at the upper end. The findings also...

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Transition from School to Work: Search Time and Job Duration

Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 1998

We consider the early labour market experience of young persons. Using a large data sample of Norwegian individuals finishing education in 1989-91, we analyse the transition from school to work and the duration of the first job. We allow the search duration, the accepted wage, and the job...

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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2002

Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...

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Count your hours: returns to education in Poland

Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009

estimation performs relatively well for men in comparison to our preferred selection corrected estimation, while using family … measure of wages used and the estimation approach applied. Combining information from two different Polish surveys from 2005 … comprehensive analysis of the effects of using different methods and the issue of selection-correction in the estimation of the wage …

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The importance of skill measurement for growth accounting

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; … - 2010

In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...

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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - 2010

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006, corresponding to the...

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Poorer health - shorter hours? Health and flexibility of hours of work

Geyer, Johannes; Myck, Michał - 2010

We analyse the role of health in determining the difference between desired and actual hours of work in a sample of German men using the Socio-Economic Panel Data for years 1996-2007. The effects of both self-assessed health and legal disability status are examined. About 60% of employees report...

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The wage elasticity of informal care supply: Evidence from the health and retirement study

Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2010

This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely...

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