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The costs of job loss in Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Razzolini, Tiziano; … - 2010
This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey over the years 2003-2008, including a special supplement on displacement that was initiated by us. We employ fixed effects regression models and propensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315283
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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
We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries …, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after … Western countries, a fact one might attribute more to the nature of the transition process than to wage setting institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412870
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The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market
Lehmann, Hartmut (contributor);  … - 2005
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the …-employment spell that the average worker experiences after layoff. -- displaced workers ; labor markets in transition ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003248213
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Job separations and informality in the Russian labor market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011
In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators (displaced workers and quitters) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523456
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337020
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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China
Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2013
This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729344
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Job displacement and first birth over the business cycle
Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
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Job security and liquid wealth
Figueiredo, Ana; Marie, Olivier; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2024
We study changes in job security after displacement and exploit eligibility rules for lump-sum payments in the Netherlands to investigate the role of liquid wealth. Within five years of job loss, the likelihood of being in permanent employment remains 12% lower for displaced workers. Those...
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Losing heart? : the effect of job displacement on health
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2012
Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential benefits for the economy, there are significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683168
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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to show...
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