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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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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We …

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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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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children’s outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon’s 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...

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Employment Turnover and Unemployment Insurance

Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Two features distinguish European and US labour markets. First, most European countries have a considerably more generous unemployment insurance system. Second, the duration of unemployment and employment spells are substantially higher in Europe – employment turnover is lower. We show that...

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