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Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Losses of Displaced Workers in France and the United States

Lefranc, Arnaud - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment of the consequences of worker displacement in France and the United States. I estimate wage losses of displaced workers in the two countries and examine the relative contribution of two important sources of post-displacement wage...

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Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652543

Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies

Lauerová, Jana Stefanová; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women’s lower probability …

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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...

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On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics

Puhani, Patrick A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

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How has Economic Restructuring Affected China’s Urban Workers?*

Giles, John; Park, Albert; Cai, Fang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

shocks were large and widespread, and were particularly hard on older workers and women. Unemployment reached double digits …

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Measuring and analyzing the non-monetary approach of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs in Togo

NOGLO, Yawo Agbényégan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

This paper aims at measuring and analyzing the non-monetary aspect of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs according to the characteristics of household head. This is the first study in this matter in Togo and using the Multidimensional Correspondence Analysis (MCA) techniques to...

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IS THE COST OF LIVING IN RUSSIA REALLY THAT LOW?

Gluschenko, Konstantin - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

There is a widespread opinion that goods, especially foods, and services in Russia are very cheap as compared to the US. A number of Russian statistical indicators characterizing the cost of living, either directly or indirectly, seemingly corroborate this opinion. This paper demonstrates that...

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When Information Dominates Comparison: A Panel Data Analysis Using Russian Subjective Data

Senik, Claudia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

We propose a micro-econometric investigation into the relation between subjective life satisfaction and income distribution, using a balanced panel survey of the Russian population (RLMS), running from 1994 to 2000, including 4096 individuals. We show that in the context of the Russian very...

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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries

Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

This paper develops a micro-econometric method to account for differences across distributions of household income. Going beyond the determination of earnings in labor markets, we also estimate statistical models for occupational choice and for the conditional distributions of education,...

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