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Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe
Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … Poland. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002481016
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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884083
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How many educated workers for your economy? : European targets, optimal public spending, and labor market impact
Lebon, Isabelle; Rebière, Thérèse - 2015
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487496
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Gender gaps in Latin American labor markets: implications from an estimated search model
Tejada, Mauricio; Piras, Claudia; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2021
We develop and estimate a search model that captures the specific characteristics of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) labor markets and the crucial differences between men and women. Labor force participation decisions are integrated in the labor market dynamics, taking into account sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486482
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International assortative matching in the European labor market
Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358755
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Costs and benefits of labour mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries country study : Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - 2013
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194750
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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196417
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UK migration policy and migration from Eastern Partnership countries
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J. - 2013
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196424
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Working beyond the normal retirement age in urban China and urban Russia
Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, Haiyuan - 2021
The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China and Russia is investigated using micro-data for 2002, 2013, and 2018. Estimated logit models show that, in both countries, the probability of working after normal retirement age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517145
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Employment fluctuations and dynamics of the aggregate average wage in Poland 1996 - 2003
Myck, Michał (contributor); Morawski, Leszek (contributor);  … - 2006
effect on the computed average. In this paper we demonstrate the extent of this problem using data for Poland for the period … 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003500304