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Measurement of labor quality growth caused by unobservable characteristics

Bolli, Thomas; Zurlinden, Mathias - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2008

The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, we develop a methodology for identifying the contri- butions of both observable and unobservable worker characteristics in the presence of the...

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Economic Reforms and Income Inequality in Urban China

Okushima, Shinichiro; Uchimura, Hiroko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

This paper reports the results of an analysis of changes in income inequality, and in its determinants, in urban China since the economic reforms that began in 1978. The intention is to identify new characteristics of economic inequality. It first shows that income differentials acrossand in...

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Intra-firm wage dispersion and fîrm performance: a review and empirical tests on Belgian data

Lallemand, Thierry; Plasman, Robert Alain; Rycx, Francois - In: Brussels Economic Review 46 (2003) 4, pp. 5-30

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we survey the theoretical and empirical literature regarding the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on firm performance. Next, we examine the nature of this relationship in the Belgian private sector, using a unique combination of two large-scale...

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Technology, computers and wages: evidence from a developing economy

Sakellariou, Chris N.; Patrinos, Harry A. - In: Brussels Economic Review 47 (2004) 3-4, pp. 543-543

Increasing returns to schooling are documented for developed and some developing countries. The growing demand for skills is associated with recent technological developments, including the introduction of computers in the workplace. Research in developed countries documents a premium for...

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Do Lower Expected Wage Benefits Explain Ethnic Age Gaps in Job-Related Training? Evidence from New Zealand

Gibson, John - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2003

Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job-related training on...

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What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain

Río, Coral del; Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

on them by household types using a detailed descriptive approach and a multivariate analysis to control for household … shows that the presence of children robustly reduces household’s chances to step out of poverty. In turn, both methodologies …

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Main Factors Determining the Difference in the Payment of Men and Women

Stoyanova, Kapka - In: Economic Studies journal (2007) 2, pp. 89-116

the payment by gender. A scheme for decomposing the factors is suggested: objective factors, human capital factor and …, focusing on the ones with dominating female or male employment; macro level, i.e. of the work place, where is transformed and … concretized the influence of the factors, acting on the higher levels. Concerning the human capital as a factor forming gender …

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Leading Factors for the Foreign Trade Exchange of Goods in Bulgaria in the Period 1988-2003

Tassev, Alexander - In: Economic Studies journal (2007) 2, pp. 149-177

The study evaluates the state of the foreign trade exchange of goods in Bulgaria in the period 1988 – 2000. It determines the leading factors in the dynamics of the exchange of goods and their influence is evaluated. Two groups of factors are formulated: economic-political and generally economic.

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Information Channels in Labor Markets. On the Resilience of Referral Hiring

Casella, Alessandra; Hanaki, Nobuyuki - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Economists and sociologists disagree over markets' potential to assume functions typically performed by networks of personal connections, first among them the transmission of information. This paper begins from a model of labor markets where social ties are stronger between similar individuals...

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Native-Immigrant Wage Differentials in Germany - Assimilation, Discrimination, or Human Capital?

Lang, Guenter - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2000

This study uses the concept of stochastic frontiers for analyzing the income disparity between ethnic groups in West Germany. Estimation of a potential rather than an average earnings function increases the explanatory power of the human capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination...

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