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and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this ?negative spillover? effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
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Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...
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Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most … growth of public employment in Russia appears less a result of ignorant or irresolute central management than a perverse …
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payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …
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advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
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Deferred payments, as implicit contracts, are predicted to bind workers to firms as long as workers believe that firms adhere to these implicit contracts. We employ a unique personnel data set from a Russian manufacturing firm to investigate whether wage arrears, delayed payments of wages,...
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404
Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703502