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Earnings differentials between the public and private sectors in China: Exploring changes for urban local residents in the 2000s

Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi; Yang, Juan - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 1, pp. 138-153

This paper analyzes the changes in public–private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China between 2002 and 2007. We find that earnings gaps across ownership sectors decreased during this period and that the convergence trend has been in favor of the private and...

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Macroeconomic adjustment, socio-demographic change, and the evolution of income distribution in Côte d’Ivoire. A decomposition by microsimulation

Grimm, Michael - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income:a change in the remuneration rates of...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends

Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2011

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Strat- ification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...

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Earnings differentials in Botswana's labour market: private versus public sector

Siphambe, Happy K.; Tlhobogang, Oratile - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 1 (2010) 3, pp. 215-226

The paper investigates earning differentials in the Botswana Formal Labour Market comparing the private and public sector earnings. The analytical framework used is an extension of the Mincerian earnings function and uses 2002/03 HIES data. Results show that the private sector earnings are on...

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Same Work, Different Pay? Evidence from a US Public University

Binder, Melissa; Krause, Kate; Chermak, Janie; Thacher, … - In: Feminist Economics 16 (2010) 4, pp. 105-135

This study examines detailed data for faculty at a typical public research university in the United States between 1995 and 2004 to explore whether gender wage differentials can be explained by productivity differences. The level of detail - including the number of courses taught, enrollment,...

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Earnings Differentials between the Public and the Private Sectors in China : Explaining Changing Trends for Urban Locals in the 2000s

Yang, Juan; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010

This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China between 2002 and 2007. We find that earnings gaps across ownership have been reducing during this period and that the convergence trend has been in favor of the private and...

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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis

Démurger, Sylvie; Gurgand, Marc; Li, Shi; Ximing, Yue - HAL - 2008

In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...

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Earnings Differentials between the Public and the Private Sectors in China: Explaining Changing Trends for Urban Locals in the 2000s

Yang, Juan; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - HAL - 2010

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The impact of the 2008 crisis on top labor incomes in Turkey: A nonparametric analysis

Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper presents a nonparametric analysis of the impact of the 2008 crisis on earnings distribution in Turkey. Using micro-level data from the Household Labor Force Survey (2004-2011), I show that the crisis has operated most visibly above the upper quartile of the earnings distribution. I...

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Unions and Gender Pay Equity in Academe: A Study of U.S. Institutions

Sosin, Kim; Rives, Janet; West, Janet - In: Feminist Economics 4 (1998) 2, pp. 25-45

them with collective bargaining agreements, to ask if faculty unions make a difference to gender pay equity. Average gender … agreement. Unions may improve gender salary differentials somewhat, particularly at the assistant professor level. There is no … professor level. The most pervasive and robust consequence of unions is to increase the positive impact that higher proportions …

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