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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses a combination of workplace and matched-employee workplace data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions and firm-provided training (incidence, intensity/coverage, and duration) on establishment performance. The performance effects...

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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...

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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided...

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?

Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …

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Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions

Muravyev, Alexander; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …

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Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment

Slonimczyk, Fabian; Yurko, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis …

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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

measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …

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Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia

Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …

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