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Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 407-416
Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the March survey. If nonresponse is ignorable, unbiased estimates can be achieved by omitting nonrespondents. Little is known about whether CPS nonresponse is ignorable. Using sample frame...
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Potentials and Pitfalls of Panel Data: The Case of Job Mobility
Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
No abstract.
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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...
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International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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From Gutsherrschaft to Grundherrschaft: Demographic, Monetary, and Fiscal Factors in the Late-Medieval Decline of English Manorial Desmesne Agriculture
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011
This study on the late-medieval decline of English manorial demesne agriculture is based on the Germanic paradigm of Gutsherrschaft and Grundherrschaft, which historians have utilized to explain the transformation of feudal agriculture, east of the Elbe River, from the 15th to the 18th...
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The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing employment and wages in Egypt 1990-2007
Said, Mona; Elshennawy, Abeer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
hand, regression analysis shows that the reduction in tariffs and increasing export orientation has been associated with an … increase in wages in manufacturing industries though the role of export orientation in influencing poor wages has not been … significant. Meanwhile, quantile regressions reveal that the impact of both the reduction in tariffs and increase in export …
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Offshoring and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand
Vries, Gaaitzen De; Foster-McGregor, Neil; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2012
In this paper we examine the link between international outsourcing – or offshoring – and the skill structure of labour demand for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1995 2009. The paper uses data from the recently compiled World-Input-Output-Database (WIOD) to estimate a system of...
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Minimum wages and firm employment: evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2014
This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage data set matched to disaggregated firm survey data. We investigate both the effect of imposing a minimum wage, and the effect of the policies that tightened enforcement in 2004....
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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Wage effects of U.S. service offshoring by skills and tasks
Püschel, Julia - FIW - 2013
In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers’ skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input-output tables over the period from 2006 to 2009, I am...
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