Given its modest position as a lower-middle-income country, Vietnam stands out from the
rest of the world with its remarkable performance on standardised test scores, school …

A large share of the workforce throughout the developing world is self-employed, and this
proportion has increased in recent decades. Assessments of this development vary, with pull …

In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the
informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of …

In this paper, we examine changes in wage structure and wage premia during Vietnam's
transition from command to market economy. Relative to other work in this literature, our …

This study examines determinants of the rural-urban gap of household welfare in Vietnam
during 2008–2012 using national household data. We have used unconditional quantile …

Many studies have analyzed changes in the returns to education in globalizing economies
using the Mincerian framework. These studies have typically estimated the returns to …

Labour market segmentation is usually defined as the division of the labour markets into
separate submarkets or segments, distinguished by different characteristics and behavioural …

Over the past 30 years, Vietnam has experienced significant shifts of employment away from
agriculture toward manufacturing and services, away from household enterprises toward …

The Vietnam 'renovation'reforms were implemented during the 1990s, but their full effect was
only felt several years later. We present evidence on the developments in real wage growth …

Public employees in many developing economies earn much higher wages than similar
private-sector workers. These wage premia may reflect an efficient return to effort or …