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Informal-formal worker wage gap in Turkey : evidence from a semi-parametric approach

Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - 2011 - This version: February 25, 2011, (preliminary and incomplete)

Using individual level data from Turkstat Household Labor Force Survey for 2005-2009 period and a variety of parametric and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a wage gap between formal and informal workers and whether...

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Study on continuing vocational training for rural activities

Ursu, Ana - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 108-115). 2023

agriculture, leading to increased labour productivity, reduced vulnerability and not necessarily job creation. …

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Downward drifting sticky floors? : evidence on the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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Regional labour markets in Brazil : the role of skills and agglomeration economies

Barufi, Ana Maria Bonomi - 2014

the recent literature on the determinants of productivity differentials in a regional context, this paper aims to discuss …

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Job polarization on local labor markets? : paper prepared for presentation at the Tasks IV Conference, Mannheim 29 July 2016

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang - 2016

In most industrialized countries, employment has grown predominately in jobs at the upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or declined. This process of job polarization is well documented for a number of countries. We...

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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012

with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

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Skills, education and productivity in the KIBS sector : firm level evidence on the presence of externalities

Klaesson, Johan; Wixe, Sofia - 2011

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

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Skill wage gap in Brazil : 1980 - 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2011

It is generally accepted that migration will lead to an increase in income. However the question is how will income be distributed across individuals in society? If migrants have lower education levels, when compared to current urban workers, then the in ow of migrants will increase the skill...

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Skill polarization in local labour markets under share-altering technical change

Accetturo, Antonio; Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - 2012

This paper considers the "share-altering" technical change hypothesis in a spatial general equilibrium model where individuals have different levels of skills. Building on a simple Cobb-Douglas production function, our model shows that the implementation of skill-biased technologies requires a...

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Skill-biased share-altering technical change in spatial general equilibrium

Accetturo, Antonio; Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - 2010

The paper consider the skill-biased "share-altering" technical change hypothesis in a spatial general equilibrium model where skilled and unskilled individual may exhibit different preferences for local amenities. A main novelty - both for labour and urban economics- is that, under this...

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