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1. 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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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

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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..