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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Pinard, Dominique - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended by Lyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777154
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990943
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761796
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761798
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762003
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762217
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703235
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703252