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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999
flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262310
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277960
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Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey
Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262500
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Sabirianova … - 2003
. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261613
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899
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Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - 1999
Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. More than half the workforce is experiencing some form of disruption to their pay. Wage arrears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262288
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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822999
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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions
Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004
We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261965
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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models
Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262249
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Tenure-based Wage Setting
Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999
We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262277