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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 …

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

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; Acquisti, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of a puzzle since Card and Lemieux, (2001) have shown that changes in the relative supply of educated natives do seem to have measurable effects on the wage structure. This paper offers a...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...

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Reconciling Workless Measures at the Individual and Household Level. Theory and Evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia

Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2004

Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...

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Two Sides to Every Story : Measuring the Polarisation of Work

Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2004

Individual and household based aggregate measures of joblessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance if work is unequally distributed. This paper introduces a simple set of indices that can be used to measure the extent of divergence between individual and...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590797

Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper summarizes inequalities in PC ownership using data from the US Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the British General Household Survey (GHS) for the period 1984-98. Between 1988 and 1994, British households were more likely than US households to own a personal computer (PC). After...

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