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Labor supply and consumption smoothing when income shocks are non-insurable

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011

The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...

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Effects of labor reallocation on productivity and inequality : insights from studies on transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Švejnar, Jan - 2016

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...

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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008

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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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The changing demand for skills : evidence from the transition

Commander, Simon (contributor); Kollo, Janos (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries

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

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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine : a semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …"This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and …

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Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

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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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