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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005

This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a … database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job … creation and job destruction rates have been rather high in Estonia and are comparable to the levels documented for the US. We …

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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of labour market flexibility in transition...

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Creative Destruction and Transition : The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2004

This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm … Estonia during the observed period from 1995 to 2001, resulting from low institutional entry barriers and emergence of the SME …

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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2002

planning and ask about differences in job creation across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid …

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Ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation in Estonia

Tammaru, Tiit; van Ham, Maarten; Leetmaa, Kadri; … - 2011

use individual level Estonia Census data in order to investigate the ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation. The results …

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Labour market reforms and outcomes in Estonia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2012

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered …

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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional...

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Labour market institutions and unemployment: Does finance matter?

Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - 2011

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...

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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's

Faggio, Giulia; Konings, Jozef - 2001

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …

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Aggregate earnings and macroeconomic shocks: The role of labour market policies and institutions

Bassanini, Andrea P. - 2012

I examine the effect of labour market policies and institutions on the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to the labour market, using both aggregate and industry-level annual data for 23 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and up to 29 years. I find that high and progressive labour...

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