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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

adjustments have become more sensitive to adjustment costs during the transition, but worker and manager ownership are associated …

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When Is Transition Over?

Brown, Annette N. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The transition process in which a country moves from a planned economy to a market economy offers a unique opportunity … transition progressed far enough to ensure that a market system will survive and mature? Are there institutional, economic, and … political standards that countries reach that measure the level of transition attained or, indeed, show that they have completed …

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Assisting Workers Displaced by Structural Change: An International Perspective

Leigh, Duane E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Leigh provides a summary of the evolution of labor market programs in seven industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. He points out that a number of these nations are dealing with long-term unemployment by linking unemployment insurance...

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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

Davidson and Matusz extend the traditional analysis of international trade to allow for labor markets characterized by workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such extensions are easily accomplished and that they provide...

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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