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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses 1985-99 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This Paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Competition Enhancing Policies and Infrastructure: Evidence from Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper investigates whether the efficiency effect of product market dispersion is a function of the infrastructural and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower government regulation may reduce transaction costs,...

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Privatization, Competition and Reform Strategies: Theory and Evidence from Russian Enterprise Panel Data

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

A critical, but largely unexamined assumption in the debate over reform policy design, concerns the complementarity or substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that distinguishes two aspects of privatization...

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Competition And Firm Performance: Lessons From Russia

Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The 'big-bang' liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analysing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of...

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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

earnings. While wives of treated men do not seem to adjust their working time at either the intensive or extensive margins … with employers or changes in earnings, but involved instead a reduction in (unpaid) work involvement, whether within a … shown to have no detrimental impact on men’s (current) earnings. The estimated cross-hour effects are consistent with the …

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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