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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015

The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...

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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia : Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011

likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134281

Between Light and Shadow : Informality in the Russian Labour Market

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014

Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by …

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Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2014

This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...

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Stuck between Surplus and Shortage : Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry

Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011

In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...

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Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises

Tan, Hong; Savchenko, Yevgeniya; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2021

Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and related local research to gain insights into the changing supply and … of in-service training in Russia. It investigates the productivity and wages outcomes of in-service training, and the …

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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition : A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2021

Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but … and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia …

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Age and Education in the Russian Labour Market Equation

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - 2022

This paper deals with age and educational dimensions of the labour supply in Russia and explores two time periods: from … are directly associated with such challenges as ageing and over-education of the labour force. Russia is not unique here …

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