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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Lamo, Ana - 2010

turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We … unemployment compared to Estonia during the period of EU enlargement. Traditional labor market institutions (wage rigidity and …

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So Many Rocket Scientists, so Few Marketing Clerks : Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Campos, Nauro F. - 2008

Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...

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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Mägi, Kadi - 2016

demonstrate that the two largest ethnolinguistic groups in Estonia tend to behave as 'parallel populations' and that residential … integration in Estonia is therefore slow …

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Socio-Demographic Model of Gender Gap in Expected and Actual Wages in Estonia

Vassil, Kristjan - 2014

Estonia ranks consistently on top of the list of countries with the largest gender pay gap. However, irrespective of …

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The Effect of Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Masso, Jaan - 2013

The existing literature on return migration has resulted in several studies analysing the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees' earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however, in this paper we analyse the less studied effect on occupational mobility – how the job in...

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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 … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania … and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia …

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