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Author: Leping, Kristjan-Olari
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Heterogeneity of Human Capital and Its Valuation on the Labour Market Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Pärnu College, University of Tartu, Estonia, February 2008. Also: http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/10062/6094/1/leping_kristjan-olari.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Tartu University Press Keyword(s): Cross-national Analysis; Estonia, Estonian Labour Force Survey; Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Studies; Heterogeneity; Human Capital; Labor Economics; Modeling; Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The aim of this dissertation is to study the heterogeneity of human capital and its valuation in the labour market. For most of the empirical analysis, Estonia is used as an example, except for one study based on US data. Although most of the analysis is conducted on Estonian data, the aim of this research is to contribute to the literature on this topic generally. This study does not aim to cover all aspects of the complex topic of the heterogeneity of human capital and its valuation on the labour market, but instead focuses on the following areas: specificity of human capital, the public-private sector wage gap, the ethnic wage gap, and the ethnic fringe benefit gap. This dissertation fi lls several gaps in the existing literature in these four areas. Both Estonian and US data are used in the thesis, including the Estonian Labour Force Survey and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Different analytical methods are applied to these data, including quantile regression, ordinary least squares regression, and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The main results of this thesis include development of a human capital specificity measure, estimation of the public-private sector wage gap on Estonian data, analysis of the ethnic wage gap in Estonia and the black-white fringe benefit gap in the U.S. The results indicate that both the public-private sector and ethnic wage gaps in Estonia are related to the transition process. The black-white fringe benefit gap is to some extent explained by the black-white wage gap. |
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Leping, Kristjan-Olari. Heterogeneity of Human Capital and Its Valuation on the Labour Market. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Pärnu College, University of Tartu, Estonia, February 2008.. |
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Racial Differences in Availability of Fringe Benefits as an Explanation for the Unexplained Black-White Wage Gap for Males in US Presented: Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, September 18-20, 2008. Also: http://www.eale.nl/Conference2008/Programme/PapersA/add70811_mnCft94sHH.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: European Association of Labour Economists Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Racial Differences; Wage Gap; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The US black-white wage gap is an issue that has attracted thorough investigation, but so far the corresponding gap for fringe benefits has not received sufficient attention. Although ethnic differences in fringe benefits could affect wage differences, previous analysis of ethnic wage gaps in the vast majority of cases has not taken fringe benefits into account. In order to fill that gap in the existing literature, this article estimates the black-white gap for both wages and fringe benefits on the basis of US data. Data from the 2004 section of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 has been used in this analysis. Our results indicate that when controlling for various individual and job characteristics, there remains a wage gap in favour of whites, and for several fringe benefits, there is an unexplained gap in favour of blacks. This result means that the ethnic wage gap overestimates the ethnic compensation gap. We also argue that fringe benefits are used to compensate blacks for their lower wages. |
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Leping, Kristjan-Olari. "Racial Differences in Availability of Fringe Benefits as an Explanation for the Unexplained Black-White Wage Gap for Males in US." Presented: Amsterdam, Netherlands, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Annual Conference, September 18-20, 2008. |