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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

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

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....

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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...

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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

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Wage Flexibility and Unemployment Dynamics in Regional Labor Markets

Hyclak, Thomas; Johnes, Geraint - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Hyclak and Johnes explore the extent to which wage rigidity differs across regional labor markets in the U.S. and how it affects the unemployment response to shifts in regional aggregate demand. They also look at the determinants of differences in wage rigidity across regional labor markets.

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Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States

Alpert, William T. (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Alpert and Woodbury present a comprehensive set of explorations into the impacts that the provision of various types of employee benefits (or lack thereof) have on labor markets. And while there are, as the editors point out, substantial differences between the employee benefits systems of...

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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

unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

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Earnings Inequality in Germany

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978...

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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers …

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