tackling important questions in labor economics and related fields. …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as …

studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

The transition from school-to-work has been a burning issue in most countries for the last decades. So far research on … this topic has not been conclusive, and it is still not clear whether transition problems are just individual, linked to … followed at upper-secondary level that is decisive for the success in the transition. Nevertheless, individual PISA scores have …

We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition …