gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …

unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … self employment while increasing average wages in the formal and informal sectors. …

substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal employment was on gradual decline. The paper overviews … employment and earnings as well as the associated political economy challenges and consequences. …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

documented, little is known about their interaction with employees' mobility behaviour. This paper contributes to this research … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The … occupation. Moreover, job mobility tends to reduce the effects of labour market entry conditions, implying that job mobility …

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi … are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated self-employment earnings premia … are positive, and the data imply positive selection into both employee and self-employment status. Structural probit …

We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico’s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two … differentials increase with education level. The probability of formal sector employment strongly increases with the wage …