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Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2001

We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this third party involvement. Our main finding is that the potential willingness of the stakeholder to make...

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Workers made idle by company strikes and the British disease

Hart, Robert A. - 2009

The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers themselves. This paper considers another important group of affected workers - those individuals incidentally made idle as a result of the strike action of others. Using a unique...

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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...

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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 …

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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,...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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