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Raising female employment : reflexions and policy tools
Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2003
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, and part-time jobs are policy instruments that are widely debated in policy circles. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261649
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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268285
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the … either minority or majority stakes, ownership structures that have largely disappeared since the early 2000s, as Ukraine has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307462
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Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes over the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345395
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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Analyzing interfirm reallocation of output, labor, capital, and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261809
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262067
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262088
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Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262229
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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262230
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315