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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our results support the view that selectivity bias appears in Canadian immigrant citizenship decisions...

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Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...

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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition

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

The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...

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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia Danzer (née … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition …

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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 … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the … displaced workers do not seem to be large. The main cost for displaced workers in Ukraine consists in the extremely long non …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …

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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition

Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …

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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …

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