Having unique data we investigate the link between job separations (displacement and quits) and informal employment, which we define in several ways posing the general question whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators in the Russian labor market. After we have...

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

Demand for schooling had dramatically increased and there are overwhelming number of graduate and new entrants admitting particular level of colleges and universities degree to receive the full rewards associated with educational qualification. therefore, this paper had examined the interlinkage...

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...

Die untersuchten Berufsverläufe von Ingenieuren, Juristen und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern zeigen, dass die Promotion allein vor allem in der Wirtschaft noch lange nicht den Weg zu den Top-Positionen ebnet. Größere Chancen bieten sich in Justiz, Wissenschaft und Politik. Trotzdem wird...