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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings: what can we learn from Russia?

Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

a substantial scale, using the Russian labour market as a test case. The increase in wage inequality in Russia during … transition. Russia also has much the largest incidence of wage arrears. Given data on wages and the incidence of wage arrears we … results suggest that conventional measures of earnings dispersion in Russia would be some 20 to 30% lower in the absence of …

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Apprenticeship and After: Does it Really Matter?

Winkelmann, Rainer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Using data from the German socio-economic panel this paper analyses the labour market entrance of former apprentices, as well as of university and full-time school graduates. There are three main findings. First, the retention rate of apprentices in their training firms is fairly low. Second,...

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The Duration of Unemployment in Russia

Grogan, Louise; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine …

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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...

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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in developing countries. The first is that the informal (or unregulated) sector is more competitive than the formal (or regulated) sector. The second is that contract enforcement is...

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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers’ reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to...

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Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...

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The Rise and Persistence of Rigidities

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper we argue that employment protection legislation is more likely to arise when the rents earned by the employed over their alternative wage is greater. The model explains why economies with greater real wage rigidity also have greater employment protection. The model also predicts...

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Welfare Differentials Across French and US Labour Markets

Cohen, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The paper computes lifetime welfare functions for French and American workers. For the vast majority of workers, we find that the lifetime discrepancy between the welfare of an employed and that of an unemplyed worker appear to quite similar in the two countries, corresponding to nine monthly...

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Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime

Raphael, Steven; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Previous estimates of the effect of unemployment on crime commonly omit determinants of criminal behavior that vary with the business cycle, creating correlation between unemployment rates and the residuals in aggregate crime regressions. In this paper, we employ several strategies that attempt...

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