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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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Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish … extending the financial support system for poorest families in Poland on labour market incentives. We demonstrate that …-adult families. 74% of single adults without children, and 53% of lone parents in Poland live in multi-family households …
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The collective model of labour supply opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction...
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turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland, and a small open economy with increased flexibility, Estonia. We …. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
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market economy in Poland. These individual experiences are matched with outcomes observed in the survey about 20 years later …
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On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local … inclusiveness in the process of development is likely to be an important factor behind the stability of Poland's administrative …
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Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked...
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return data to reevaluate distributional consequences of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the … that over the last three decades Poland has become one of the most unequal European countries among those for which top …
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flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … of a continued job match unsure, offset, in Poland at least, by insider resistance to layoffs …
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We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...
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