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Grime and Punishment: Job Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Asquisti, Alessandro - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1999

Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that for many Russian workers, the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. Other forms of adjustment at the intensive margin have not been used much....

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Tenures that shook the world: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2000

, Britain. We show that tenure-turnover rates are higher in Russia 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 …

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