Winners and Losers in Transition: Returns to Education, Experience, and Gender in Slovenia

Abstract

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Where Has All the Education Gone?

“…Orazem and Vodopivec (1995) find that the returns to schooling in Slovenia for all levels of schooling increased substantially from 1987 to 1991. The wage premium to a university education increased by 32 percent, from .715 to .943.…”

“…The study cited above shows that workers in Eastern Europe (Slovenia) are able to use their previously acquired skills in the new policy environment and the return to education is increasing (Orazem and Vodopivec, 1995).…”

Gender wage gap dynamics in a changing Ukraine

“…This happened in cases in which they were segregated in specific sectors of the economy (for example the service sector) that boomed after the collapse of the planned economy. See Orazem and Vodopivec's (1995) explanation for the improvement of women's relative wages in Slovenia. 7 Probably the most famous example of this effect is the case of East Germany, (Hunt 2002), where 40% of the 10% point increase of female wages with respect to male wages is explained by the withdrawal of low wage earners from employment.…”

Wage determination under plan and early transition: Bulgarian evidence using matched employer–employee data

“…When data on these exogenous factors are available, typically they are for features beyond individual firms (e.g. industry dummies, as in Orazem and Vodopivec, 1994). When available, data on firm characteristics are quite limited (e.g.…”