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The incidence and cost of job loss in a transition economy : displaced workers in Estonia, 1989-1999
Lehmann, Hartmut; Phillips, Kaia; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2002
We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries …, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after … Western countries, a fact one might attribute more to the nature of the transition process than to wage setting institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412870
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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy : Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999
Lehmann, Hartmut; Phillips, Kaia; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries …, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after … Western countries, a fact one might attribute more to the nature of the transition process than to wage setting institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320428
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376904
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337020
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Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes Over the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2015
economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015022
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Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes Over the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2015
economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016159
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714263
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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405097
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Job displacement and first birth over the business cycle
Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596874
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Losing heart? : the effect of job displacement on health
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2012
Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential benefits for the economy, there are significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683168