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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317475
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415913
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Informality and mobility : evidence from Russian panel data
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E. - 2013
patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in Russia. Using the RLMS household panel we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204504
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339676
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406678
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313946
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405706
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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from Russia over the past quarter century, which address various shortcomings with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187174
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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
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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Gross job flows in Russian industry before and after reforms : has destruction become more creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403410