Returns to skills and the speed of reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 351-370

  Fleisher, Belton M ^a   Sabirianova, Klara ^b   Wang, Xiaojun ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; China; Meta analysis; Returns to schooling; Russia; Skills; Speed of reforms; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744377872     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Daniela Andrén John S. Earle Dana Sǎpǎtoru The wage effects of schooling under socialism and in transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000 Journal of Comparative Economics 33 2 2005 300
2. Simon Appleton John Knight Lina Song Q. Xia Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences China Economic Review 13 2002 252-276
3. Orley Ashenfelter Colm Harmon Hessel Oosterbeek A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias Labour Economics 6 1999 453-470
4. Olivier Blanchard The Economics of Post-Communist Transition 1997 Clarendon Press Oxford, UK
5. Tito Boeri Katherine Terrell Institutional determinants of labor reallocation in transition Journal of Economic Perspectives 16 2002 51-76
6. Elizabeth Brainerd Winners and losers in Russia's economic transition American Economic Review 88 1998 1094-1116
7. Elizabeth Brainerd Women in transition: Changes in gender wage differentials in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 2000 138-162
8. Raymond P. Byron Evelyn Q. Manaloto Returns to education in China Economic Development and Cultural Change 38 1990 783-796
9. Nauro Campos Dean Jolliffe After, before and during: Returns to education in the Hungarian transition CEPR Discussion Papers 4215. Available from http://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/4215.html 2002
10. David Card The causal effect of education on earnings In: Orley Ashenfelter David Card (Eds.) Handbook of Labor Economics vol. 3A 1999 Elsevier Amsterdam 1801-1863
11. David Card Estimating the return to schooling: Progress on some persistent econometric problems Econometrica 69 2001 1127-1160
12. Robert Chase Markets for communist human capital: Returns to education and experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia Industrial and Labor Relations Review 51 1998 401-423
13. Kevin Denny Colm Harmon Raemonn Lydon Cross-country evidence on the returns to education: Patterns and explanations CEPR discussion papers 3199. Available from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=301879 2002
14. Dougherty, C, 2003. Why is the rate of return to schooling higher for women than for men? CEPR Discussion Papers 581
15. Earle, John S., Sǎpǎtoru, Dana, Trandafir, Mircea, 2002. Economic reform and changes in returns to higher education in Romania. Unpublished paper, prepared for PHARE-ACE P98-1020-R: Should free entry of universities be liberalized? Estimating the value of public and private higher education in Central and Eastern Europe
16. Randall Filer Stepan Jurajda Jan Planovsky Education and wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics during transition Labour Economics 6 1999 581-593
17. Robert Flanagan Were communists good human capitalists: The case of the Czech Republic Labour Economics 1998 295-312
18. Belton M. Fleisher Xiaojun Wang Returns to schooling in China under planning and reform Journal of Comparative Economics 33 2 2005 265
19. Belton Fleisher Dennis Yang Problems of China's rural labor markets and rural-urban migration Paper prepared for the International Symposium on China's Rural Economy after WTO: Problems and Strategies, Hangzhou, China, June 25-27, 2004. Available from http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/Fleisher/working_papers/ 2004
20. Giles, John, Park, Albert, Zhang, Juwei, 2004. The great proletarian cultural revolution, disruptions to education, and returns to schooling in urban China. Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
21. Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, 2004. Unpublished estimates and other data
22. Yuriy Gorodnichenko Klara Sabirianova Peter Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis Journal of Comparative Economics 32 2 2005 324
23. R.G. Gregory Xin Meng Wage determination and occupational attainment in the rural industrial sector of China Journal of Comparative Economics 1995 353-374
24. Zvi Griliches Estimating the returns to schooling: Some econometric problems Econometrica 45 1977 1-22
25. Theodore Groves Yongmiao Hong John McMillan Barry Naughton China's evolving managerial labor market Journal of Political Economy 103 1995 873-892
26. James J. Heckman Xuesong Li Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education: Evidence from China in 2000 Pacific Economic Review 9 2004 155-171
27. James J. Heckman Sergio Urzua Edward Vytlacil Understanding instrumental variables in models with essential heterogeneity. Stanford University, Stanford, CA Available from http://www.stanford.edu/~vytlacil/ 2004
28. Dean T. Jamison Jacques van der Gaag Education and earnings in the People's Republic of China Economics of Education Review 6 1987 161-166
29. D. Gale Johnson The People's Republic of China: 1978-1990 1990 ICS Press, International Center for Economic Growth San Francisco, CA
30. Emily N. Johnson Gregory C. Chow Rates of return to schooling in China Pacific Economic Review 2 1997 101-113
31. Stepan Jurajda Does the short supply of college education Bite? CERGE-EI 213 http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp213.pdf 2003
32. Michael P. Keane Eswar S. Prasad Inequality, transfers, and growth: New evidence from the economic transition in Poland Review of Economics and Statistics 84 2002 324-341
33. Kollo, Janos, 2002. Unpublished estimates and other data
34. Haizheng Li Economic transition and returns to education in China Economics of Education Review 22 2003 317-328
35. Haizheng Li Yi Luo Reporting errors, ability heterogeneity, and returns to schooling in China Pacific Economic Review 3 2004 191-207
36. Tianyou Li Junsen Zhang Returns to education under collective and household farming in China, 1998 Journal of Development Economics 56 1998 307-335
37. Zhiqiang Liu Earnings, education, and economic reforms in urban China Economic Development and Cultural Change 46 1998 697-725
38. Margaret Maurer-Fazio Earnings and education in China's transition to a market economy: Survey evidence from 1989 and 1992 China Economic Review 10 1999 17-40
39. Xin Meng Labour Market Reform in China 2000 Cambridge Univ. Press Cambridge, UK
40. Xin Meng Michael P. Kidd Labor market reform and the changing structure of wage determination in China's state sector during the 1980s Journal of Comparative Economics 25 1997 403-421
41. Daniel Münich Jan Svejnar Katherine Terrell Is women's human capital valued more by markets than by planners? Journal of Comparative Economics 33 2 2005 278
42. Daniel Münich Jan Svejnar Katherine Terrell Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy Review of Economics and Statistics 87 2005 100-123
43. Barry Naughton Growing out of the Plan 1995 Cambridge Univ. Press Cambridge, UK
44. Rivo Noorkoiv Peter F. Orazem Allan Puur Milan Vodopivec Employment and wage dynamics in the Estonia transition, 1989-1995 Economics of Transition 6 1998 481-503
45. Peter F. Orazem Milan Vodopivec The value of human capital in transition to market: Evidence from Slovenia, 1997 European Economic Review 41 1997 893-903
46. Yingyi Qian Jinglian Wu China's transition to a market economy: How far across the river? In Nicholass C. Hope Dennis Tao Yang Mu Yang Li (Eds.) How Far Across the River? 2003 Stanford Univ. Press Stanford, CA 31-64
47. Jan Rutkowski High skills pay off: The changing wage structure during economic transition in Poland Economics of Transition 4 1996 89-112
48. Jan Rutkowski Low wage employment in transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe MOCT-MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional Economies 7 1997 105-130
49. Jan Rutkowski Earnings inequality in transition economics of Central Europe: Trends and patterns during the 1990s Social Protection discussion paper 117. World Bank, Washington, DC. Available from http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/hddocs.nsf/0/ BC78A3BE29E1058785256A9C004DA767?OpenDocument
50. Sabirianova Peter, Klara, 2003. Skill-biased transition: The role of market institutions and technological change. Working paper series 616. William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
51. Jeffrey Sachs Shock therapy in Poland: Perspectives of five years The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Available from http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/sachs95.pdf
52. T. Paul Schultz Education investments and returns In: Holls Chenery T.N. Srinivasan (Eds.) Handbook of Development Economics 1988 Elsevier Amsterdam 543-630
53. Theodore Schultz The value of the ability to deal with disequilibria Journal of Economic Literature 13 1975 827-846
54. Robert M. Solow Reflections on growth and development Annals of Economics and Finance 4 2003 219-229
55. Varga, Julia, Galasi, Peter, 2002. Returns to higher education in Hungary 1992 and 2000. Unpublished paper, prepared for PHARE-ACE P98-1020-R. Should free entry of universities be liberalized? Estimating the value of public and private higher education in Central and Eastern Europe
56. Jiri Vecernik Earnings disparities in the Czech Republic: Evidence of the past decade and cross-national comparison Prague Economic Papers 10 2001 201-221
57. Milan Vodopivec The Evolution and Determinants of Slovenia's Wage Structure in the 1990s 2002 World Bank Washington, DC
58. Wu, Xiaogang, Xie, Yu, 2002. Does market pay off? Earnings inequality and returns to education in urban China. Working paper 454. William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
59. Dennis Tao Yang Determinants of schooling returns during transition: Evidence from Chinese cities Journal of Comparative Economics 33 2 2005 244
60. Alwyn Young Gold into base metals: Productivity growth in the People's Republic of China during the reform period Journal of Political Economy 11 2003 1220-1261
61. Zhang, Junsen, Zhao, Yaohui, 2002. Economic returns to schooling in urban China, 1988-1999. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong