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International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472730
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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798202
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Assisting Workers Displaced by Structural Change: An International Perspective
Leigh, Duane E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
-term unemployment by linking unemployment insurance benefits to participation in labor market programs, and that this is a requirement U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502813
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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
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues-including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141959
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102000
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102009
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116757
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Wages, Layoffs, and privatization: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitov, Volodymyr - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593467
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The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done about It
Smith, Ralph E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358433
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Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia
Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101998