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Complementarity and Custom in Contract Violation
Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006
We analyze a model of wage delay in which strategic complementarity arises because each employer's costs of violating its contracts decrease with the arrears in its labor market. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification through fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141942
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2003
What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and nonpayment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141977
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Corporate Control: A Study of Firms on the Bucharest Stock Exchange
Telegdy, Almos; Earle, John S.; Kaznovsky, Victor; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850018
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The Productivity Effects of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. We exploit the key longitudinal feature of our data to measure and control for pre-privatization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030679
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Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116752
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The Wage Effects of Schooling under Socialism and in Transition: Evidence from Romania, 1950-2000
Andren, Daniela; Earle, John S.; Sapatoru, Dana - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
an increase in the West (labor supply movements, product demand shifts, technical change) or the transition … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116762
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"Mass Privatisation and the Post-Communist Mortality Crisis": Is There Really a Relationship?
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010
We reexamine the well-publicized claim that "rapid mass privatisation [of state-owned enterprises] . . . was a crucial determinant of differences in adult mortality trends in postcommunist countries" (Stuckler, King and McKee, 2009). Our analysis shows that the estimated correlation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478800
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The Productivity Effects of Privatization in Ukraine: Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data, 1989–2005
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007
This paper estimates the effect of domestic and foreign privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The longitudinal dimension of the data is used to measure and control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970726
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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants
Earle, John S.; Brown, J. David - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002
hiring and of quits and layoffs-and they contain a rich set of firm characteristics that may affect job and worker turnover … intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms' employment … adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141959
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials with LEED from Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2007
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficulties distinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. This paper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141966