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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652625
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652663
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885295
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890112
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951452
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252327
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Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration
Davis, Donald R.; Weinstein, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
Two facts motivate this study. (1) The United States is the world's most productive economy. (2) The US is the destination for a broad range of net factor inflows: unskilled labor, skilled labor, and capital. Indeed, these two facts may be strongly related: All factors seek to enter the US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248651
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Empirical Matching Functions: Estimation and Interpretation Using Disaggregate Data
Anderson, Patricia M.; Burgess, Simon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
In this paper, we estimate matching functions using disaggregate data. We find strong support for the matching approach, with most specifications implying slightly increasing returns to scale. This finding does not appear to arise from our inclusion of additional controls or from the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248670
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Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large
Rogerson, Richard; Wright, Randall; Visschers, Lodewijk P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Shimer's calibrated version of the Mortensen-Pissarides model generates unemployment fluctuates much smaller than the data. Hagedorn and Manovskii present an alternative calibration that yields fluctuations consistent with the data, but this has been challenged by Costain and Reiter, who say it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084587