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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?

Earle, John S. - 2014

Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...

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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2006

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; … - 2006

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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition : A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Earle, John S. - 2011

to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia …

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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition : A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2021

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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

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Job reallocation and productivity growth in the Ukrainian transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2021

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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition : a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; … - In: Comparative economic studies 48 (2006) 3, pp. 435-457

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