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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261614
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Worker Displacement During the Transition : Experience from Slovenia
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan; Wu, Ruth - 2004
The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276083
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with … market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data that permits measurement of employment … flows and job flows in a comprehensive and integrated manner. We find a high pace of job flows in Slovenia especially for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262681
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274457
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282579
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Immigrant workers and farm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup … - 2013
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291420
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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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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278817
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A Structural Empirical Model of Firm Growth, Learning, and Survival
Abbring, Jaap H.; Campbell, Jeffrey R. - 2003
We present a structural model of firm growth, learning, and survival and consider its identification and estimation. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262756
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Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia
Laporsek, Suzana; Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Matija; … - 2019
This study examines long-term effects of a minimum wage increase using an innovative identification strategy based on categorising workers according to their predicted marginal revenue products. It finds that the increase had a large and persistent disemployment effects on low-paid workers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005824