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How has Economic Restructuring Affected China’s Urban Workers?*

Giles, John; Park, Albert; Cai, Fang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

shocks were large and widespread, and were particularly hard on older workers and women. Unemployment reached double digits …

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So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Occupational Mobility in Times of Rapid Technological Change

Campos, Nauro F.; Dabušinskas, Aurelijus - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

The transition from centrally planned to market economy involves a process of massive occupational change that has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper investigates this process using data from the 1995 Estonian Labour Force Survey. We find that between 35 and 50 percent of wage...

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Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in the Czech Republic

Terrell, Katherine; Sorm, Vit - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

We analyze the impact of the active labor market policies (ALMPS) and the unemployment compensation system (UCS) on … unemployment duration's of different groups in the Czech population by estimating hazard functions with new macroeconomic data. We … unemployed to search for jobs but has not unduly prolonged unemployment spells. This first analysis of the effectiveness of ALMPs …

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Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics

Konings, Jozef; Lehmann, Hartmut; Konings, Jozef; … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate Russian labour demand equations for the year 1997. The most important...

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Labour Demand During Transition in Hungary

Korosi, Gabor - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

1.6m, i.e., by more than 25% during the past decade, while unemployment jumped from practically nil to over 14% within …

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Labor Supply, Informal Economy and Russian Transition

Bouev, Maxim - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour …

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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation, union density …

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Social Policies and Structures: Institutional Frictions and Traps in the Czech Republic After 1989

Vecernik, Jere - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

This paper compares the standard economic and a complementary socio-economic approach to the transition. While the economic approach looks at social problems from the outside and views them as costs of transition, the socio-economic approach looks at these problems from the inside and views them...

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A Multi-Task Theory of the State Enterprise Reform

Bai, Chong-En; Li, David D.; Tao, Zhigang; Wang, Yijiang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

During transition, maintaining employment and providing a social safety net to the unemployed are important to social stability, which in turn is crucial for the productivity of the whole economy. Because independent institutions for social safety are lacking and firms with strong profit...

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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...

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