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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks: estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro F.; Dabušinskas, Aurelijus - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272341
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261995
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267645
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274316
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278643
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261600
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Social incentives matter: Evidence from an online real effort experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287651
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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282286
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States : A Generational Accounting Perspective
Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261806
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related. We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that the fraction of workers switching occupations in the United States was as high as 16% a year in the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938