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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: New Econometric Evidence
Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This Paper uses a unique dataset (covering about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998) and a novel procedure to correct sample selection bias (based on DiNardo,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498066
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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in Hungary (1986-1998)
Campos, Nauro F; Jolliffe, Dean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
How valuable are the skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This Paper throws light on this question using unique data covering the years before and during transition (1986-98) for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners. We find that returns to a year of schooling increased by 75%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667110
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What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667089
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Stolyarov, Dmitriy L.; Peter, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005660133
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Returns to Human Capital Under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666520
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Poverty in the Transition: Social Expenditures and the Working-Age Poor
Klugman, Jeni; Micklewright, John; Redmond, Gerry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Europe and the former Soviet Union considerable scope to devote increased resources to tackling poverty. We review the extent … and nature of poverty across the transition countries, emphasising the phenomenon of the working-age poor. We consider … unemployment benefit schemes in the CIS would aid labour market reform and hence help solve the problem there of in-work poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656318
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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
Gertler, Paul; Heckman, James; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821751
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Structural Change and Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe: Some Key Issues
Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Labour markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) will be a key vehicle for the expression and reallocation of skills and talents in the transformation process. To a large extent, the emergence of unemployment is an indicator of this restructuring and reallocation. This paper surveys some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792263
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828728
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Are the World’s Poorest Being Left Behind?
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105933