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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 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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Tenures that shook the world: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 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/10010313447
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277952
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They are even larger!: More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
Wir zeigen empirisch, dass die konjunkturellen Schwankungen am Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland höher sind als in den USA. Insbesondere ist die Volatilität von Arbeitsmarktvariablen (etwa der Vakanzen, der Arbeitsmarktanspannung oder der Wahrscheinlichkeit Arbeit zu finden) im Verhältnis zur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277959
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277960
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Labour market adjustments in Europe and the US: How different?
Beyer, Robert C. M.; Smets, Frank - 2015
We compare the labour market response to region-specific shocks in Europe and the US and to national shocks in Europe and investigate changes over time. We employ a multi-level factor model to decompose regional labour market variables and then estimate the dynamic response of the employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605812
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The Impact of Training on Labour Mobility
Felstead, Alan; Green, Francis; Mayhew, Ken; Pack, Alan - 1999
The paper investigates the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using two new data sets, one of individuals the other of firms. The innovation is that the data incorporate measures of the degree of transferability of training, improved information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443331
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Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey
Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262500
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Regional earning disparities and the speed of transition: Evidence from Poland 1994-1997
Burke, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
In the early days of transition Poland hosted regional earning disparities. Low levels of worker and firm mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331947
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The Challenges of Integrating Ukrainian Economic Migrants and Refugees in Poland
Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Sabina; Solga, Brygida - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 6, pp. 326-332
In a relatively brief timeframe, Poland has witnessed a substantial increase in immigration,transitioning from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014459454