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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703457
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Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises
Tan, Hong; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and related local research to gain insights into the changing supply and … of in-service training in Russia. It investigates the productivity and wages outcomes of in-service training, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822530
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The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762414
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Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes
Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which individuals find employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762007
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884332
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885180
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Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325421
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325442
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416940
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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592859