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Does the Market Pay Off? Earnings Inequality and Returns to Education in Urban China
(2002-04-01)
The paper examines earnings inequality and earnings returns to education in China among four types of workers characterized by their labor market history. Compared to workers staying in the state sector, early market ...
The effect of demand uncertainty on a precommitted monopoly price
(Elsevier, 1989)
Under plausible conditions on the shape of a monopolist's or a monopolistic competitor's cost function, multiplicative demand uncertainty is shown to raise the firm's optimal precommitted price. It is argued that this ...
Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-05)
Past empirical work has shown a negative relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and wages in most cases. We improve on this work by allowing the marginal effect of non-linear BMI groups to vary by gender, age, and ...
The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries: Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland
(2002-01-01)
This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main ...
Studying (Small) businesses with the Michigan Employment Security Commission longitudinal data base
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-12)
This paper addresses the usefulness of a longitudinal data file constructed from records on employers from the Michigan Employment Security Commission. We describe the main features of the data file, which includes quarterly ...
Precautionary Saving and Consumption Smoothing across Time and Possibilities
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-03)
Work, Income, and Material Hardship after Welfare Reform
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2000-06)
Proximity to death and participation in the long-term care market
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2009-08)
The extent to which increasing longevity increases per capita demand for long-term care depends on the degree to which utilization is concentrated at the end of life. We estimate the marginal effect of proximity to death, ...