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Level of alcohol consumption and worker’s labor market position. Multivariate probit model approach
Kim, Vitally - In: Applied Econometrics 18 (2010) 2, pp. 53-77
This paper considers the influence of alcohol consumption on employment and income of workers on the Russian labor … alcohol consumption on employment and income The model has been estimated using a method of maximum simulated likelihood on … the basis of data from RLMS Result shows that moderate drinking is associated with higher probability of employment and …
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A Premium for a Degree in Engineering: An Estimation of Returns to the Field-Specific Education in Russia
Denisova, Irina; Kartseva, Marina - In: Applied Econometrics 5 (2007) 1, pp. 30-57
medicine — in terms of wage and employment stability based on The Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. We find a significant … variation in returns to majors with the highest positive wage premiums in engineering, for both males and females, and to higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275458
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Entrepreneurship, On-the-job Search and Informal Jobs
Lisi, G. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2011) 9, pp. 33-46
This paper develops a search and matching model of equilibrium unemployment, with on-the-job search, extended to both the informal sector and entrepreneurship. Three are the key features of this model: the entrepreneurial ability affects job productivity, all unemployed start their job search in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003882
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The System of Low Wages as the Institutional Trap of Postsocialistic Economy
Pliskevich, N. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2010) 5, pp. 126-146
The article is devoted to one of the key institutional traps of the economy in transition. Namely to dominated since the Soviet period system of low wages linked inseparably with the configuration of the social sphere. The author considers the construction as before puts obstacles in the way of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008597045
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En kritisk vurdering af den generelle ligevaegtsmodel
Harsaae, Erik - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus
problem of "full employment" (in itself a loose concept) is difficult, but Milton Friedman's criticism of "the Phillips Curve …" is a real phenomenon, and Friedman's claim that unemployed workers will not seek employment, unless current wages are …
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