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This paper considers the school-to-work transition and discusses its distinctive features in the Russian economy. Using RLMS data covering 1995-2003 years we estimate which factors and to what extent affect the transition. We also examine effects of regional unemploymentand wages, sharing work...
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force participation, employment and unemployment rates, vacancy rates, the incidence of informal employment, and average … come together. Relatively high wage and employment levels go hand in hand with low levels of unemployment and informal … rising unemployment, in others these indicators did not change, and in others they even improved. However, real wages fell in …
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We investigate the effect of compulsory military service on wages in Hungary. We use administrative social security data and difference-in-difference strategy to estimate how the conscription in 2003 and 2004 affected the wages of soldiers. Before conscription, the soldiers earned 20 percent...
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This paper surveys the literature on public-private sector wage differentials for Russian labor market. We give an overview of the main results and problems of the existing research. The authors unanimously confi rm that in Russia private sector workers receive higher wages relative to their...
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We investigate the effect of compulsory military service on wages in Hungary. We use administrative social security data and difference-in-difference strategy to estimate how the conscription in 2003 and 2004 affected the wages of soldiers. Before conscription, the soldiers earned 20 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254058
Published as an article in: Moneda y Crédito (2004), 219, pp.: 43-68.
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Using a substitution property of worker’s types (productivity and time preference), we propose an explanation for both fixed-wages and wage differentials. Fixed-wages result in bunching at the optimum. Equally productive workers with different time preference accept different wages.
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special system of unemployment assistance. The majority of the non-employed, including those aged 15-59, receive disability …
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groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. -- Unemployment Models …
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special system of unemployment assistance. The majority of the non-employed, including those aged 15-59, receive disability …. -- unemployment ; inactivity ; job search ; registration …
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