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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about … generated major increases in the relative wages of professional and managerial workers. We demonstrate how private firms tend to … wages was the decline, between 1992 and 1998 in labour market participation of those with low levels of education. Wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018
, age and wages were positively related throughout working life, but more recently older workers' wages have been lower than … those of middle-aged workers. The relationship between education and wages was weak in 1988 but strengthened rapidly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947049
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377367
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Wages, layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Vladimir - 2006
This paper estimates the effects of privatization on worker separations and wages using retrospective data from a … used to control for unobservables in worker and firm selection. The results imply that privatization reduces wages by 5 … percent and cuts the layoff probability in half. Outside investor ownership reduces separations but leaves wages unaffected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287960
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Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988 - 2008: Evidence from quantile analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2012
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291330
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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018
, age and wages were positively related throughout working life, but more recently older workers' wages have been lower than … those of middle-aged workers. The relationship between education and wages was weak in 1988 but strengthened rapidly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146460
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Yuan and Roubles : comparing wage determination in urban China and Russia at the beginning of the new millennium
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, … - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364980
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Riding the transition roller-coaster : flexibility and the inter-industry wage structure in Russia
Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436169
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Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities
Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2016
This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks how earnings premiums and earnings penalties have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543192
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Self-employment and wage earning : Hungary during transition
Co, Catherine Yap; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or nonworking for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wageearning jobs for workers only....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413298