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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134822
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Estrin, Saul - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146838
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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321340
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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap : Is R&D the Main Culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011
last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127961
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133623
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca - 2011
capital flows, because of stronger employment adjustments in comparison with a competitive economy. We next exploit the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118521
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126136
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103467
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107468
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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ
Bargain, Olivier - 2013
We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086204