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Migration in the Soviet successor states

Locher, Lilo - 2002

This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...

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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001

This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...

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Transition with labour supply

Boeri, Tito - 2001

Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … labour supply. Surprisingly enough, the literature on the economics of transition has devoted little, if any, attention to … labour force participation decisions. In the models of the optimal speed of transition (OST) literature, the labour force is …

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The distribution of wages in transition countries

Newell, Andrew - 2001

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence

Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...

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Public employment and redistributive politics : evidence from Russia's regions

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, … - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country's 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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Equilibrium wage arrears : a theoretical and empirical analysis of institutional lock-in

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

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Sectoral restructuring and labor mobility : a comparative look at the Czech Republic

Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2000

Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as … that it occurred with lower incidence and duration of unemployment than in the other transition economies. The demographic … characteristics of different patterns of mobility are similar across these transition economies: we identify younger people in general …

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Returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy

Terrell, Katherine D.; Švejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …

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