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Do Markets Favour Women's Human Capital More Than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...

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On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics: A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...

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Job Tenure, Wages and Technology: A Reassessment Using Matched Worker-Firm Panel Data

Givord, Pauline; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …

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Who Gains when Workers Train? Training and Corporate Productivity in a Panel of British Industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …

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Sugar Prices, Labour Income and Poverty in Brazil

Krivonos, Ekaterina; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and employment … experience larger income gains due to higher wages, whereas households at the bottom of the distribution experience larger income …

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Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …

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Compensation Practices and Outcomes in Canada and the United States.

Chaykowski, R.; Lewis, B. - Queen's at Kingston - Sch. of Indus. Relat. HRM Project … - 1995

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Dual Labor Markets, Urban Unemployment and Multicentric Cities.

Smith, T.E.; Zenou, Y. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

A two-sector model of urban unemployment is developed which focuses on the formation of a secondary sector under conditions in which a demand shock in the primary sector leads to a sharp increase in unemployment. The optimal location in the secondary sector (treated as a single firm) is shown to...

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OPTIMAL PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT POLICY WITH ENDOGENOUS INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT.

BOADWAY, R.; MARCHAND, M.; PESTIEAU, P. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1989

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Can Skill Decay Increase Search Effort?.

Charlot, O.; Decreuse, B. - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2000

We consider the search behaviour of an infinite lifetime worker whose expected matching gains are assumed to be decreasing over the spell of unemployment. The search effort is linked positively to future earnings and negatively to the worker's reservation wage. We show that this may give rise to...

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