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Agriculture: transition buffer or black hole? : a three-state model of employment dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2002
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415572
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Land reforms, status and population growth
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2014
decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337427
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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks : estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793275
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Formal education, mismatch and wages after transition : assessing the impact of unobserved heterogeneity using matching estimators
Lamo, Ana; Messina, Julián - 2010
requirements of jobs in Estonia during the years 1997-2003. We find large wage penalties associated with the phenomenon of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970946
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Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment?
Lamo, Ana; Messina, Julián; Wasmer, Etienne - 2010
turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We … unemployment compared to Estonia during the period of EU enlargement. Traditional labor market institutions (wage rigidity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153578
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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
, 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 fallen back to levels observed in several western economies, as the … in Estonia. The main cost of displacement is then the income loss due to non-employment, which is severe for a minority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412870
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Job growth in early transition : comparing two paths
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
planning and ask about differences in job creation across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413646
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What drives the speed of job reallocation during episodes of massive adjustment?
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413904
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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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Learning about farming: innovation and social networks in a resettled community in Brazil
Comola, Margherita; Inguaggiato, Carla; Mendola, Mariapia - 2021
We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on social ties among settlers, and we leverage natural exogenous variation in network formation induced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431296