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market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade … costs, this triggered a sequence of more employment-oriented and more fundamental reforms that eventually helped overcome a … low employment situation. The paper pursues the trajectory of reforms, shows the structural change in labor market …
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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 …
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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 …
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likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …
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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. …
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tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
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This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian...
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The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990). Exploring the longitudinal nature of...
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