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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both … earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …

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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India

Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010

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After, Before and During: Returns to Education in the Hungarian Transition

Campos, Nauro F.; Jolliffe, Dean - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

How valuable are the education and skills acquired under socialism in a market economy? This paper uses data for about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998, to throw light on this question. We find that returns to schooling reach 10 percent early on and remain at this high level....

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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,...

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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

migration in Indian context, recent studies on migration in India have focussed mainly on rural-urban migration or on migration … from/between specific regions. The present paper explores the post reform nature of migration in India with special focus …

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Technological Change, Skill Demand, and Wage Inequality in Indonesia

Lee, Lee , Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013

This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003–2009 for overall industry...

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Human capital formation, inequality, and competition for jobs

Mejía, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2007

This paper develops a model where heterogeneous agents compete for the best available jobs. Firms, operating with different technologies, rank job candidates in the human capital dimension and hire the best available candidate due to complementarities between the worker´s human capital and...

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Unequal Opportunities and Human Capital Formation

Mejía, Daniel; St-Pierre, Marc - Banco de la Republica de Colombia

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and aggregate...

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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...

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Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle

Barlevy, Gadi; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Economists have long viewed recessions as contributing to increasing inequality. This conclusion is largely based on data from a period in which inequality was increasing over time, however. This Paper examines the connection between long-run trends and cyclical variation in earnings inequality....

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