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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2010
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138258
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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
Muravyev, Alexander - 2010
former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135176
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Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms
Malkova, Olga - 2019
This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed pensioners to receive a greater share of their pensions if they worked, resulting in a progressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858497
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union : An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2021
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade … - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout … across the Soviet Union to reassess the standard of living in the USSR using these alternative measures of well-being. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317677
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2021
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318316
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Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Asali, Muhammad - 2017
We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946565
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Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth : Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347482
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Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Nicinska, Anna - 2021
We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227319
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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap : Is R&D the Main Culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127961
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Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2011
specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …
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