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Evolution of employment protection legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic states, 1985 - 2009
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312896
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Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth : evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309039
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561621
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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360090
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What mean impacts miss : distributional effects of welfare reform experiments
Bitler, Marianne (contributor);  … - 2005
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085742
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Consumer loan response to permanent labor income shocks : evidence from a major minimum wage increase
Güney, Ethem; Hacihasanoglu, Yavuz Selim; Tumen, Semih - 2017
We investigate the impact of a substantial minimum wage increase, which became effective in January 2016, on consumer loans in Turkey. Using bank-level data and designing an original identification strategy, we ask whether the loans provided by banks with a historically high share of low-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647652
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The motherhood wage and income traps
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Thibault, Emmanuel - 2023
effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers' wages (possibly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250085
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The (un)importance of inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
Transfers from parents - either in the form of gifts or inheritances - have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805994
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The post-enlargement migration experience in the Baltic labor markets
Hazans, Mihails; Philips, Kaia - 2011
We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with several other surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EU accession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, as well as selection issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311534
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Labour market flexibility and employment protection regulation in the Baltic States
Eamets, Raul (contributor); Masso, Jaan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002043943