Education and wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics during transition

Filer, Randall K.; Jurajda, Štěpán; Planovsky, Jan

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“…These numbers are considerably larger than the corresponding OLS estimates, which is consistent with studies for other transition economies (see Heckman and Lee, 2003, for China;Filer et al, 1999, for Czech and Slovak Republics).…”

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“…The labor market outcomes of reforms in the two countries also turned out to be different. 3 In Russia, overall wage inequality increased sharply, with a significant and notable increase in returns to schooling (Brainerd, 1998;Sabirianova, 1 The breakup of Czechoslovakia is another interesting case for analyzing the divergence in returns to schooling between Czech and Slovak Republics during the reform period (see Chase, 1998;Filer et al, 1999). 2 Typically, Russian economic reforms have preceded similar reforms in Ukraine.…”

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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis

Gorodnichenko

Peter

2005

Journal of Comparative Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative AnalysisYuriy Gorodnichenko Klara Sabirianova Peter The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the transition period while the skill composition of employment did not. Our approach in analyzing the sources of cross-country differences in returns to schooling is to compare the Mincerian earnings functions between the two countries and then to employ decomposition techniques. Using semiparametric methods, we construct counterfactual wage distributions for university and secondary school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and unobservables. This allows us to decompose differences in returns to schooling between the two countries due to differences in the labor market returns (price effect), differences in unobservables (residual effect), and differences in the labor force composition (composition effect). We conclude that of these three effects the price effect makes a major contribution to the observed differences in the returns to schooling.JEL Classification: C14, I20, J31, O15, O57, P50

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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis

Gorodnichenko

Peter

2005

Journal of Comparative Economics

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“…Heckman and Li, 2004;Li and Luo, 2004;Fleisher et al, 2004;Chen and Hamori, 2009) and studies for other transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe (see e.g. Filer et al, 1999;Gorodnichenko and Sabrianova, 2005;Arabsheibani and Mussurov, 2007).…”

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Estimating returns to schooling in urban China using conventional and heteroskedasticity-based instruments

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“…12 Students graduating from academic programs also have the highest chance of being admitted to highly selective universities. Further, Filer et al (1999) show that in 1997 wages 10 See Filer and Münich (2000) or Matějů and Straková (2005) for a detailed description of the Czech education system and Münich (2004) for evidence on the value added of each type of secondary schools. 11 In the Czech Republic, there are no types of last names related to a history of family wealth (such as "van" or "von" names; see, e.g., Moldanová, 2004).…”

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Admission to Selective Schools, Alphabetically

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Münich

2005

SSRN Journal

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One's position in an alphabetically sorted list may be important in determining access to oversubscribed public services. Motivated by anecdotal evidence, we investigate the importance of the position in the alphabet of Czech students for their admission chances into oversubscribed schools. Empirical evidence based on the population of students graduating from secondary schools and applying to universities is consistent with the use of alphabet in admission procedures at both secondary and tertiary level. A simple student-school matching model suggests that the repeated use of such admissions implies potential efficiency losses.JEL Codes: H49, J78, I29

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Education and wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics during transition

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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis

Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis

Estimating returns to schooling in urban China using conventional and heteroskedasticity-based instruments

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