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groups, mainly ethnic Russians, remained into the former member states of the Soviet Union after its dissolution in 1991. We … use individual level Estonia Census data in order to investigate the ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation. The results …
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How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...
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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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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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planning and ask about differences in job creation across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid …
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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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This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...
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We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …
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usually based on the comparison of national estimates, typically collected on the basis of different definitions and …
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We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
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