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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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A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850

Long, Jason; Ferrie, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The U.S. both tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe's. These attitudes and beliefs help account for differences in the magnitude of redistribution through taxation and social welfare spending. In fact, the U.S. and Europe had roughly...

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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...

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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

Shimer, Robert; Werning, Iván - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper argues that a risk-averse worker's after-tax reservation wage encodes all the relevant information about her welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some...

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Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white males and the other groups are striking and complex. The lemons effect of layoff holds for white...

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Comparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment

Bils, Mark Joseph; Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We introduce worker differences in labor supply, reflecting differences in skills and assets, into a model of separations, matching, and unemployment over the business cycle. Separating from employment when unemployment duration is long is particularly costly for workers with high labor supply....

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The Peter Principle: Promotions and Declining Productivity

Lazear, Edward - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

Many have observed that individuals perform worse after having received a promotion. The most famous statement of the idea is the Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence. There are a number of possible explanations. Two are explored. The most...

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Determinants of Non-employment and Unemployment Durations in East Germany

Hunt, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any European transition economy, yet one might have...

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Long-Term Effects of Job Displacement: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Stevens, Ann Huff - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

This paper measures the long-term wage and earnings losses of workers who lose jobs due to plant closings and layoffs, using a fixed-effects estimator to control for unobserved worker characteristics and longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results show large and...

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