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Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …

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Private wage returns to schooling in Nigeria : 1996-1999

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - 2002

In the last two decades, primary and secondary school enrollment rates have declined in Nigeria while enrollment rates in post-secondary school have increased. This paper estimates from the General Household Survey for Nigeria the private returns to schooling associated with levels of...

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Schooling returns for wage earners in Burkina Faso : evidence from the 1994 and 1998 national surveys

Kazianga, Harounan - 2004

This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of...

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Wage gains associated with height as a form of health human capital

Schultz, T. Paul - 2002

height on log hourly wages in recent national surveys from three countries: Ghana, Brazil and the United States. I conclude … human capital wage effects of height compared with the OLS estimates. The OLS estimates of height effects on wages are …

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Human capital, schooling and health returns

Schultz, T. Paul - 2003

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

Die Studie analysiert die Determinanten der Inzidenz, des Umfangs und der Kompensation von Überstunden in Westdeutschland und Großbritannien in den Jahren 1991 bis 1998. Ist die Inzidenz von Überstunden in beiden Ländern noch durchaus vergleichbar, so arbeiten britische Arbeitnehmer im...

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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 …

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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004 - Updated version: March 2004

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

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Interpreting estimation results of Euler equation investment models when factor markets are imperfectly competitive

Janz, Norbert Helmut - 1997

In this paper the standard Euler equation investment model with imperfectly competitive product markets is extended for imperfectly competitive structures on the factor markets: labour markets and markets for investment goods. This extension leads to two additional explanatory variables in the...

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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

taken into account. We extend the neoclassical labor supply model in two directions. First, we allow for endogenous wages … differentials of part-time jobs, the model with endogenous wages predicts lower part-time employment than the standard neoclassical …

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