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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
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in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …
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Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
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We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …
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We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
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This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …
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Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
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We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the … displaced workers do not seem to be large. The main cost for displaced workers in Ukraine consists in the extremely long non …
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Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for … micro data set for Ukraine …
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across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …
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