fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as … differences in individual characteristics or pure gender discrimination, better explain the observed gender differences in labour …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …’ for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …

likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by … 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. …

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

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … differences. The twin pair difference estimates from instrumental variables estimation for genetically identical twins reveal a …