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| Title: | | Do Markets Favor Women?s Human Capital More than Planners?  |
| Authors: | | Münich, Daniel Svejnar, Jan Terrell, Katherine |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1393 |
| Abstract: | | Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002; no differences in returns to education by state vs. privatelyowned firms; ?sheepskin? effects in both regimes, which rise over time and are similar across firm ownership; no difference in returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar increases in returns to education for women and men. In sum, markets pay women and men equally more for their human capital than the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private ownership. |
| Subjects: | | human capital wages transition sheepskin effects Czech Republic |
| JEL: | | P31 P20 J31 J24 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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