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Tenures that shook the world : worker turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999

flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317475

They are even larger! : more (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896476

Tenure-based wage setting

Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999

We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...

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Labour market dynamics and worker heterogeneity during the Great Recession : evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Kramer, Anica; … - 2015

Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type of employment contract, and on cross-country...

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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

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Informality and mobility : evidence from Russian panel data

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2013

patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using the RLMS household panel we …

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Job creation, Job destruction and employment growth in transition countries in the 90's

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …

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Earnings inequality and transition : a regional analysis of Poland

Sibley, Christopher W.; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2002

In this paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in regions that are more advanced in restructuring (higher labour productivity/job reallocation rates), controlling for...

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Declining migration within the US : the role of the labor market

Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2014

Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines...

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Home ownership, job duration, and wages

Munch, Jakob Roland (contributor); … - 2006

We investigate the impact of home ownership on individual job mobility and wages in Denmark. We find that home ownership has a negative impact on job-to-job mobility both in terms of transition into new local jobs and new jobs outside the local labour market. In addition, there is a clear...

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