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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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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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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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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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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309508
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Migration, crisis and adjustment in an enlarged E(M)U : the Spanish perspective
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - 2014
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341331
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The free movement of workers in an enlarged European Union : institutional underpinnings of economic adjustment
Kahanec, Martin; Pytlikova, Mariola; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407978