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The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...
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the high level and persistence of fear of unemployment in Russia may be caused by non-economic factors. …
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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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Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …
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but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …
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This study comprises an introductory section and three essays analysing Russia's economic transition from the early … issues Russia has faced during its somewhat troublesome transformation from state-controlled command economy to market … Russia, the essay examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises. It is found that to a large …
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for dual class stock firms using the voting premium approach. Our empirical analysis is based on data from Russia and …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...
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This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from...
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The lockdown and other restrictive measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic recession have had a strong impact on labour markets worldwide. As far as the European Union (EU) is concerned, the accelerated fall in total employment was the 'sharpest decline ever...
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