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Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2013
measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328971
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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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Wage policies of a Russian firm and the financial crisis of 1998: evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265000
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Wage policies of a Russian firm and the financial crisis of 1998: evidence from personnel data ; 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268611
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The gender earnings gap inside a Russian firm: first evidence from personnel data - 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2008
Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268756
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The costs of job loss in Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Razzolini, Tiziano; … - 2010
This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278331
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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2001
The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage … dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage … arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the wage distribution and measures of wage inequality in Russia. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477499
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Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Lehmann, Hartmut; Oshchepkov, Aleksey; Silvagni, Maria … - 2020
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207720
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The Bonding Effect of Deferred Compensation: Worker Separations from a Large Firm in Early Transition Russia
Ananyev, Mikhail; Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2020
Deferred payments, as implicit contracts, are predicted to bind workers to firms as long as workers believe that firms adhere to these implicit contracts. We employ a unique personnel data set from a Russian manufacturing firm to investigate whether wage arrears, delayed payments of wages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270036
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2006
Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but … and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494672