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

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 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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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We …

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....

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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates

Nyarko, Yaw; Naidu, Suresh; Wang, Shing-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...

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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun; Couch, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation--German reunification-- abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with...

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Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We explore the hypothesis that high home-ownership damages the labor market. Our results are relevant to, and may be worrying for, a range of policy-makers and researchers. We find that rises in the home- ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in...

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The Occupational Mobility of Female Workers: An Empirical Analysis

Grimes, Paul W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986

Data from three supplemental mobility surveys conducted jointly with the Current Population Survey (CPS) in 1973, 1978, and 1981, were analyzed to investigate the determinants of occupational change by female workers in the American labor force. Results suggest that occupationally mobile female...

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Does Government Health Insurance Reduce Job Lock and Job Push?

Barkowski, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

I study job lock and job push, the twin phenomena believed to be caused by employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence on employment for health insurance, I estimate...

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The Return Motivations of Legal Permanent Migrants: Evidence from Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants in Australia

Abarcar, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision? This paper uses exogenous home country exchange rate shocks arising from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to distinguish return motivations of a national sample of Australian...

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Demokratie , öffentliche Güter und Europa

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The rise of the extreme poles in the European political Spectrum, corresponds currently with a clear call for help by the site of simple People, combined with the desire for a serious confrontation with the tragic impasse reproduced by the extreme Problems of the everyday live . In this case,...

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