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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...

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Job creation schemes in turbulent times

Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCS were heavily used in order to cushion this...

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The caring hand that cripples : the East German labor market after reunification ; (detailed version)

Snower, Dennis J. (contributor); … - 2006 - Detailed Version

The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely because of the support it has received. This paper explores the phenomenon of "the caring hand that...

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The aftermath of reunification : sectoral transition, gender, and rising wage inequality in East Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Antonczyk, Dirk - 2011

Using a large administrative data set, this paper studies the evolution of the East German wage structure throughout the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase occurred predominantly in the lower part of the wage distribution for women and in the...

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Decomposing male inequality change in East Germany during transition

Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

This paper studies the cause of the changes in male wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in the characteristics of...

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The East German wage structure after transition

Orlowski, Robert (contributor); … - 2008

We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages...

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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms : evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro (contributor); Kinoshita, Yuko (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and … potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. -- Privatization ; financial reform ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct …

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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007

Askenazy, Philippe (contributor) - 2008

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...

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Short-time work benefits revisited : some lessons from the Great Recession

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011

The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...

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Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed, the greater is their cumulative likelihood of falling...

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