SELF-SELECTION AND EARNINGS DURING VOLATILE TRANSITION

Ralitza Dimova () and Ira Gang

William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while skilled labor’s pattern of reallocation into the public sector remains roughly the same over time, the inflow of highly educated laborers into the private sector and selfemployment increases. These changes coincide with the erosion of the returns to observed skills in the private sector and self-employment, while the public sector continues to reward all types of education at higher than the elementary level.

Keywords: employment selection; earnings; Bulgaria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J23 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2004-05-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (15)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp699.pdf
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp699.pdf [302 Found]--> https://wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp699.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition (2004)
Working Paper: Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition (2004)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wdi:papers:2004-699

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan 724 E. University Ave, Wyly Hall 1st Flr, Ann Arbor MI 48109. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by WDI ().