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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271753
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms : Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Fleisher, Belton M.; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Wang, Xiaojun - 2021
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319200
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Long-term growth and persistence with obsolescence
Barañano, Ilaski; Romero-Ávila, Diego - In: Economic modelling 51 (2015), pp. 328-339
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476032
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003
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 the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261607
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Skill-Biased Transition : The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2021
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 the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319700
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Labor reallocation and demographics
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2018
We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the demographic flows of youth entry and elderly exit. The same applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778903
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Labor reallocation and demographics
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas - 2017
We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the demographic flows of youth entry and elderly exit. The same applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785669
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Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages Among Rural Migrants in Urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan - 2017
The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946563
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Micro and macro determinants of public support for market reforms in Eastern Europe
Hayo, Bernd - 1999
This paper looks at public support for the creation of a market economy in Eastern Europe. As a data base, the Central and Eastern Eurobarometers surveys are employed, covering up to 21 countries over a time period of 1990-96 and totalling more than 100000 observations on individuals. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519061
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Re-employment Dynamics of Disabled Workers
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2001
We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262473