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Shocked by therapy? : unemployment in the first years of the socio-economic transition in Poland and its long-term consequences
Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - 2018
market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798238
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The emerging aversion to inequality : evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005
Grosfeld, Irena (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self-reported attitudes. Using unusually long and frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716524
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Multi-family households in a labour supply model : a calibration method with application to Poland
Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008
The collective model of labour supply opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741919
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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 …. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153578
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The distribution of wages in transition countries
Newell, Andrew - 2001
inequality. These changes are arguably the best guide to future trends in the wage distribution. Taking the case of Poland … in Poland, though there is no change in hourly wage inequality, structural change has had clear impacts of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400803
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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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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics : a proposal for a methodology on cross section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339691
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912
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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 … of a continued job match unsure, offset, in Poland at least, by insider resistance to layoffs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317475
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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