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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...

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Inter-industry wage differences and individual heterogeneity : how competitive is wage setting in the UK?

Carruth, Alan A.; Collier, Bill; Dickerson, Andrew P. - 1999 - Draft: December 1999

There are two findings that are conspicuous in almost all studies of individual wage determination. First, standard cross-section wage equations rarely account for more than half of the total variance in earnings between individuals. Second, there are large and persistent inter-industry wage...

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

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Economic consequences of political persecution

Bohacek, Radim; Myck, Michał - 2017

We analyze the effects of persecution and labor market discrimination during the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia using a representative life history sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We find strong effects of persecution and dispossession on...

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Shareholders and wage determination

Ogorevc, Marko; Šlander, Sonja - 2010

Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...

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Compensation of on-call and fixed-term employment : the role of uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005

In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...

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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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Wages, Productivity and Industry Composition – agglomeration economies in Swedish regions

Klaesson, Johan; Larsson, Hanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

It is a well known fact that wages have a tendency to be higher in larger regions. The source of the regional … the fact that regions have different industrial compositions. The second part is due to the fact that average regional … productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage …

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The Impact of Sectoral Minimum Wage Laws on Employment, Wages and Hours of Work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2012

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...

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When the minimum wage bites back: Quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile Treatment Effects of the MW on the conditional and unconditional distribution of...

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