Does Unmeasured Ability Explain Existence of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials? | Comprehensive Analysis of Georgian Quarterly Household Data
Giorgi Chanturia
ISBN 10: 3639000544 ISBN 13: 9783639000542
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Does Unmeasured Ability Explain Existence of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials? | Comprehensive Analysis of Georgian Quarterly Household Data | Giorgi Chanturia | Taschenbuch | Englisch | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639000542 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 101832353
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A large volume of the literature documents the existence of large and persistent wage differentials among industries for workers of comparable skills. This work provides empirical evidence measuring the extent to which unobserved abilities explain the existence of highly persistent inter-industry wage differentials, based on Georgian quarterly household longitudinal data that allow us tracking workers over time. We find that inter-industry differentials that are measured on a cross-sectional basis reflect inter-industry variations in unmeasured labor characteristics. When estimated at longitudinal level the dispersion of inter-industry wage differentials measured by weighted standard deviation decreases roughly seven times and the actual differentials reduce 4-5 times, indicating that a substantial part of the differentials merely reflect differences in labor quality across industries. In addition, we check whether there is endogeneity of mobility within the longitudinal model by Instrumental Variables (IV) method, concluding that endogeneity of mobility is not a major source of bias in the model and the results of the test are fully consistent with our earlier findings.
About the Author: Giorgi Chanturia, MA: Studied Economics at Central European UniversityChief Specialist at the Legal Aid to Reforms Section of the Legal Department at the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia
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Title: Does Unmeasured Ability Explain Existence of...
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Taschenbuch
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