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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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Apprenticeship and After: Does it Really Matter?

Winkelmann, Rainer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Using data from the German socio-economic panel this paper analyses the labour market entrance of former apprentices, as well as of university and full-time school graduates. There are three main findings. First, the retention rate of apprentices in their training firms is fairly low. Second,...

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...

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Labour Mobility of Academic Inventors. Career Decision and Knowledge Transfer

Crespi, Gustavo A.; Geuna, Aldo; Nesta, Lionel J. J. - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2006

This paper focuses on university inventors mobility in the EU countries. It is the first quantitative assessment of this phenomenon and is the basis for a set of econometric models that try to explain how different factors affect the mobility of academics and their choices: to stay, to move to...

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Vertical occupational mobility and its measurement

Lindley, Joanne Kathryn; Dex, Shirley; Ward, Kelly - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2007

This paper describes a number of alternative approaches to devising a vertical occupational scale and compares the outcomes of different scales on calculations of occupational mobility. The paper describes the conceptual issues relevant to calculating occupational mobility and documents the...

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The Impact of Structural Policies on Trade-Related Adjustment and the Shift to Services

Kongsrud, Per Mathis; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

What policy reforms are most urgently needed to remove obstacles to output and employment growth in service sectors and to enhance economies’ ability to adjust to structural change as a result of changing trade patterns? This paper reviews the impact of the structural policy framework...

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Regional Unemployment in the OST Literature

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - In: The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions

This paper surveys the now large body of theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical...

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Preliminary Evidence on Impacts of Active Labor Programs in Hungary and Poland

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …-employment, and comparison groups were done in Hungary and Poland in early 1997. Preliminary analysis suggests positive net impacts … Poland to assess how representative the comparison groups are of the general population of registered unemployed workers. …

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Promoting Self Employment Among the Unemployed in Hungary and Poland

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 … large and positive. In Poland there were also large and positive earnings impacts. A negative estimated earnings impact in … Poland, outside of service industries in Hungary, and outside of manufacturing and construction in Poland. …

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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 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...

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