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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries

Bornhorst, Fabian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A new regional geography of Europe? : The labour market impact of the EU enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto (contributor); … - 2007

"This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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Transitions in labour market status in the EU

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie; Macchiarelli, Corrado - 2013

This paper presents information on labour market mobility in 23 EU countries, using Eurostat's Labour Force Survey (LFS) data over the period 1998-2008. More specifically, it discusses alternative measures of labour market churning; including the ease with which individuals can move between...

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The transition to self-employment and perceived skill-mismatches: panel data evidence from eleven EU countries

Albiol Sánchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel … - 2020

Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being skill-mismatched in comparison with salaried employees. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the transition from salaried employment to...

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