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Wage Differentials in the Presence of Unobserved Worker, Firm, and Match Heterogeneity
Woodcock, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We consider the problem of estimating and decomposing wage differentials in the presence of unobserved worker, firm, and match heterogeneity. Controlling for these unobservables corrects omitted variable bias in previous studies. It also allows us to measure the contribution of unmeasured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790449
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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
Mion, Giordano; Naticchioni, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
attributed to aggregate proxies of agglomeration externalities. Our data further support the assortative matching hypothesis … matching is negatively related to local market size. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619447
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The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians
Chen, Maggie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use a Chinese firm-director level panel dataset to examine the matching of heterogeneous firms and politicians … positive assortative matching in the political markets. More productive firms recruit more powerful politicians. Further, the … decreases in the efficiency of local governments. Conditional on the endogenous matching, new hires with greater political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550551
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
benefit payments compared to the wage earned in available jobs - labour supply and matching - a theoretical approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Knight, John; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616659
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Skills Distribution, Migration and Wage Differences in Pure Service-Exchange Economy
Gupta, Abhay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper considers an economy with skilled agents exchanging their services. Using Cobb-Douglas preferences, the paper shows that there exists an optimal (average welfare maximizing) skills' distribution. This optimal distribution is independent of productivity and is welfare equalizing. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616662
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Civil Servants’ Salary Structure
Bilquees, Faiz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the FederalGovernment employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the anomalies in the allowances structure to show that appropriate remuneration for the civil servants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616769
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The usury doctrine and urban public finances in late-medieval Flanders (1220 - 1550): rentes (annuities), excise taxes, and income transfers from the poor to the rich
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objectives of this study are three-fold. The first is to rebut Charles Kindleberger’s famous dictum that usury ‘belongs less to economic history than to the history of ideas’; and in particular to demonstrate that the resuscitation of the anti-usury campaign from the early 13th century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617005
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The rising wage inequality in Mexico, 1984-2000: A distributional analysis
Popli, Gurleen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this paper we look at the distribution of wages to examine the extent and cause of the increasing wage inequality in Mexico over the last two decades (1984 to 2000). To understand the causes of the increase in inequality over time we do a counterfactual analysis. We find that over the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617171
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The Nature of Poverty and Its Prospects: Pakistan Evidence
Herani, Gobind M.; Wasim, Pervez; Rajar, Allah Wasayo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analysis the reasons of poverty, and identifies reduction strategies developed in Pakistan and its consequences. This exploratory study uses the secondary data for the analysis. Much has been written on poverty reduction in Pakistan. So many strategies are prepared and implemented in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617182