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Labor markets and labor market institutions in transition economies

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312040

Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457410

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 … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …

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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012

This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...

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Wage arrears and the distribution of earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We …

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