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So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Occupational Mobility in Times of Rapid Technological Change
Campos, Nauro F.; Dabušinskas, Aurelijus - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
consistently important determinant of occupational mobility. Our results also show the speed with which the market mechanism takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677678
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677699
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SELF-SELECTION AND EARNINGS DURING VOLATILE TRANSITION
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force … status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the … three employment sectors. We find that while skilled labor’s pattern of reallocation into the public sector remains roughly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677636
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Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in the Czech Republic
Terrell, Katherine; Sorm, Vit - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998
We analyze the impact of the active labor market policies (ALMPS) and the unemployment compensation system (UCS) on unemployment duration's of different groups in the Czech population by estimating hazard functions with new macroeconomic data. We conclude these programs were effective in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652592
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Fleisher, Belton M.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Wang, Xiaojun - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784595
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Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James; Zhang, Dandan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
In this project, we employ data from the Chinese population censuses of 1982, 1990, and 2000 to examine reform-era changes in the patterns of male and female labor force participation and in the distribution of men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Very marked patterns of change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677410
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Assessing the Problem of Human Capital Mismatch in Transition Economies
Druska, Viliam; Jeong, Byeong ju; Kejak, Michal; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
In transition economies, there may be a significant mismatch between the types of skills that workers possess and the types of skills that the new economy demands. We consider this problem of human capital mismatch along the dimensions of training type (holding the level) and occupation. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652552
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WHILE LABOUR HOARDING MAY BE OVER, INSIDERS’ CONTROL IS NOT. DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYMENT GROWTH IN POLISH LARGE FIRMS, 1996-2001.
Bishop, Kate; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of employment changes using a panel of Polish large firms during the period 1996 …-2001. We investigate the impact of wages, output growth, investment, firm size and sectors upon employment, focusing on the … asymmetry hypothesis. We find that investment plays an important role in enhancing employment growth. We also notice that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489887
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Ownership and Employment in Russian Industry: 1992-1995
Linz, Susan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998
process (1) Russian industry exhibited a low labor elasticity, and (2) employment changes were highly correlated with … ownership structure. The first section summarizes what we know about output and employment patterns in Russian industry between … and employment patterns Russia inherited, the results from the panel data regressions indicate that manufacturing firms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652629