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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

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

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

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762442

Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...

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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...

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Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...

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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761883