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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 …

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The role of worker flows in the dynamics and distribution of UK unemployment

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2011

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements across time are shaped by changes in labour market...

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Population growth, immigration and labour market dynamics

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2021

This paper examines the role of population flows on labour market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations in the United Kingdom. Population flows are large, and cyclical, driven first by the maturation of baby boom cohorts in the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New...

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Grime and Punishment : job insecurity and wage arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - 1999

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...

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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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The incidence and cost of job loss in a transition economy : displaced workers in Estonia, 1989-1999

Lehmann, Hartmut; Phillips, Kaia; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2002

We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have...

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The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market

Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor); … - 2005

, but considerably larger than in Russia. The characteristics of displaced workers are similar to those displaced in the …

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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the...

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Labour markets in the time of coronavirus: measuring excess

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2020

No matter the cause, recessions are usually accompanied by some combination of job loss, hiring freezes, wage cuts or hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market performance and develop strategies to address the problems...

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Trainspotting : "good jobs", training and skilled immigration

Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019

While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', i.e. those with training, available to indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically...

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