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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071141
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Power Utility Re-regulation in East European and CIS Transformation Countries (1990-1999): An Institutional Interpretation
Hirschhausen, Christian von; Opitz, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068969
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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068750
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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002 ; Updated Version
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071134
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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071137
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512972
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765849
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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128869
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Riding the Transition Roller-Coaster: Flexibility and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Russia
Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its … transition from a plan-based economy to a more \market oriented" structure. Using two Russian household panel data sets, the RLMS … increased. Moreover, Russia exhibits large movements in wage premia, as industries respond to massively changing demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963804
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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527282