WHICH HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS FOR RICH AND POOR'S WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED WORKER-FIRM DATA FROM TUNISIA

Christophe Muller and Christophe Nordman

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. We develop a new method based on multivariate analysis of firm characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in wage equations. It also provides a human capital interpretation of the effect of these dummy variables. Moreover, in the studied data, using three firm characteristics easily collectable yields results close to those obtained by using the matched structure of the data.

Keywords: wage; returns to human capital; matched worker-firm data; quantile regressions; factor analysis; Tunisia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2004-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-dev, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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Working Paper: WHICH HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS FOR RICH AND POOR'S WAGES? EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED WORKER-FIRM DATA FROM TUNISIA (2005)
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