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Job search behavior of unemployed in Russia
Smirnova, Natalia - 2003
unemployed workers in transitional Russia.We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … metropolitan areas of Moscow and St.Petersburg differs substantially from the behavior of workers living elsewhere in Russia ….The most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148458
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Job search monitoring and unemployment duration in Hungary: evidence from a randomised control trial
Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - 2005
The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, administrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267569
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Job search channels, neighborhood effects and wages inequality in developing countries: The Colombian case
García, Gustavo; Nicodemo, Catia - 2013
This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293099
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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial
Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - 2005
The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey data, ad-ministrative registers and inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494668
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Does job-search assistance affect search effort and outcomes? A microeconometric analysis of public versus private search methods
Fougère, Denis; Pradel, Jacqueline; Roger, Muriel - 2005
In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and variable costs of search in which unemployed workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267495
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Wage-Specific Search Intensity
Rendon, Silvio - 2023
I propose a model in which agents decide on job search intensity for each possible wage, unlike the usual setup of constant search intensity over wage draws. The proposed framework entails efficiency gains in that agents do not waste effort to searching for low paying unacceptable jobs or less...
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Job Search and Youth Unemployment: Analysis of Swedish Data
Albrecht, James W.; Holmlund, Bertil; Lang, Harald - 1988
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315
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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In
Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2000
payment equilibrium." Our econometric analysis of linked employer-employee data for Russia supports the model's contention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262404
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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001
, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262559