This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen … framework and the search-matching framework (eg. Pissarides, 1990). Second, it improves the correspondence between the …

strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that … matching is pervasive in the labor market. This result is in contrast with what we find from correlating the worker and firm …

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes … using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who …

reallocation costs, this paper shows that these costs are important at the aggregate level. I use a search and matching model to … adjustment are economically important, accounting for up to three percent of output during the transition. These costs arise …

This paper examines how policies, aimed at increasing the supply of education in the economy, affect the matching …

This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching …