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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …

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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...

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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities

Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Peter, Klara … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …

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Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...

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Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data

Slonimczyk, Fabian; Gimpelson, Vladimir - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using the RLMS household panel we …

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House Lock and Structural Unemployment

Valletta, Robert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A recent decline in geographic mobility in the United States may have been caused in part by falling house prices, through the "lock in" effects of financial constraints faced by households whose housing debt exceeds the market value of their home. I analyze the relationship between such "house...

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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies

Kunze, Astrid; Miller, Amalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include unusually detailed job information for each worker, which enables us to...

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Bargaining and Wage Rigidity in a Matching Model for the US

Malcomson, James; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

The Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model with all wages negotiated each period is shown inconsistent with macroeconomic wage dynamics in the US. This applies even when heterogeneous match productivities, time to build vacancies and credible bargaining are incorporated. Wage rigidity...

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