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Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882621
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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876563
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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262815
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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268760
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Labor market adjustment: Is Russia different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - 2011
tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278812
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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763683
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233777
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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Oviedo, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822543
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822648
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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain
Andrews, Martyn; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822767