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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality : Insights from Studies on Transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2016

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...

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Commuting Time and Labour Supply : A Causal Effect?

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2011

We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on...

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The Effects of Marginal Employment on Subsequent Labour Market Outcomes

Böheim, René - 2006

We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, quot;marginal employmentquot;, for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the...

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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation

Albrecht, James - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...

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Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity : Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment Among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters

Dillon, Andrew - 2014

Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study...

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EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market

Barrett, Alan - 2009

Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was...

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share

Paul, Saumik - 2020

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … significant only in agriculture, which can be attributed to the heavily underreported income from self-employed workers in …

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The Changing Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Russia

Lacroix, Guy; Radtchenko, Natalia - 2021

During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...

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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...

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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

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