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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China
Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729344
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Wage policies of a Russian firm and the financial crisis of 1998 : evidence from personnel data ; 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor) - 2008
1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm … and of a fall in workers' outside options after the financial crisis and cuts real wages. Earnings are curbed most for … those who earned the highest rents, resulting in a strong compression of real wages. The fact that real wages and real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656918