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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain , 19932000

Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...

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Is Education the Panacea for EconomicDeprivation of Muslims? Evidence fromWage Earners in India, 1987-2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials amongreligious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligioussocieties like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examiningthe differences in the...

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The long-term effects of job search requirements : evidence from the UK JSA reform

Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...

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Becoming an entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo (contributor); Valenzuela, Patricio (contributor) - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried … appropriate counterfactuals of interest. The results indicate that the income gains associated with the switch from salaried … winners". Additionally, the income changes associated with the reverse switches (from self-employment to salaried jobs) are …

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Household migration decisions as survival strategy : the case of Burkina Faso

Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005

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Match bias from earnings imputation in the current population survey : the case of imperfect matching

Bollinger, Christopher R. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the latter group being assigned earnings of donors who share some but not all the attributes of the...

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Economic returns to Communist Party membership : evidence from urban Chinese twins

Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak-wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - 2006

This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation of these results is that...

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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings : a marginal treatment effects approach

Arias, Omar (contributor); Khamis, Melanie (contributor) - 2008

This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …

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Did British women achieve long-term economic benefits from working in essential WWII industries?

Hart, Robert A. - 2009

Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased labour supply was achieved through government directed...

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