Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … 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 …

employees. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector …-reported compensation in the public sector. Using the conditions of labor market equilibrium, we develop an aggregate measure of bribery and …

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow …

occupational mobility, their labor force transitions, and their wage growth in Russia compared to the U.S. We hypothesize that the … training in workers' current fields is estimated to reduce mobility and earnings, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition …

importance in balancing cyclical fluctuations in labor demand. Does THS employment provide some benefits to disadvantaged workers … earnings ; wages ; multiple jobs …

We assess the labor market experiences of military veterans, focusing on three major outcomes, among others … military experience is valued in the labor market similarly to foregone civilian experience. Second, veterans are clustered in …