Browsing Institutes and Centres by Subject "Wage determination"

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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey

Duffy, Fiona ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Institute for the Study of Labor, 2001-05)

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and ...
The marginal and average returns to schooling

Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-09)

The existing literature now features many examples where log wages are linear in years of schooling and which effectively attempt to correct for least squares bias using instruments based essentially on a single variable. ...
The marginal and average returns to schooling in the UK

Harmon, Colm ; Walker, Ian (Elsevier Science, 1999-04)

We explore the possibility that different instruments may affect different margins of the schooling distribution, and consistent with recent evidence we find a large, significant downward bias in the least squares estimate ...
A regional analysis of wage determination in Poland

Duffy, Fiona ; Walsh, Patrick P. (LICOS Centre for Transition Economics, 2000-02)

A simple model of wage setting and restructuring predicts that the average wage level in a regional labour market in Poland, among other factors, will be negatively related to the unemployment rate and positively related ...