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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines … strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings differentials are largest for production workers who constitute the largest … by observable characteristics at the mean and across the wage distribution. Our analysis also reveals that the earnings …

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Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is not easy and it is crucial to provide a valid definition of it. This paper contributes to the recent discussion of the measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich...

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Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine

Christev, Atanas; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper addresses the important issue of the effects of trade liberalization on labor market job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use disaggregated data on manufacturing industries and customs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703421

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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

and of a fall in workers’ outside options after the financial crisis and cuts real wages. Earnings are curbed most for …

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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine

Pignatti, Norberto; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

are located. Our contention that informal self-employment is voluntary is confirmed by the substantial earnings premia …

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Macedonia’s Accession to the EU and the Labor Market: What Can Be Learned from the New Member States?

Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The paper was produced as a background paper on labor issues for the UNDP study "Convergence to the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities." It first looks at the issue of how the labor market institutions of an acceding country like Macedonia should be shaped to further the integration of...

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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing sector for the years 1998-2000. There are several important findings in the paper. Job...

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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

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